{"id":6019,"date":"2017-12-27T22:05:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T03:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:50:40","slug":"medical-marijuana-dispensary-opening-bostons-south-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=6019","title":{"rendered":"Medical marijuana dispensary could be opening in Boston’s South End"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medical marijuana dispensary could be opening in Boston’s South End<\/h1>\n

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BOSTON — A new medical marijuana dispensary could soon be opening in Boston’s South End.<\/p>\n

Jeff Reilinger is the CEO of Compassionate Organics – a company that’s looking to open a dispensary on Newbury Street.<\/p>\n

He said he’s interested in opening one in the South End, too.<\/p>\n

“I was diagnosed with MS when I was in graduate school. I started using marijuana to sleep,” Reilinger said. “That was 20 years ago. My MS has been silent, and I’ve been sleeping great as well.”<\/p>\n

Many people have addressed concerns with the proposed location, arguing that it’s just a few blocks from the intersection of Mass Ave and Melnea Cass Boulevard – a spot that many consider to be the epicenter of the opioid crisis in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Reilinger says medical marijuana dispensaries shouldn’t be put in the same category as methodone clinics.<\/p>\n

“A lot of evidence shows that for folks\u00a0who are addicted this can be helpful getting off of their addiction”\u00a0Reilinger\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Most of the business owners in the area said they’re aware of the potential plans, and said they’re okay with it.<\/p>\n

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Medical marijuana dispensary could be opening in Boston’s South End Updated:\u00a0Dec 27, 2017 – 7:23 PM BOSTON — A new medical marijuana dispensary could soon be opening in Boston’s South End. Jeff Reilinger is the CEO of Compassionate Organics – a company that’s looking to open a dispensary on Newbury …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannabis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}