Meeting Wednesday on potential for Braintree marijuana businesses

BRAINTREE – The town council ordinance and rules committee wants to hear from residents and the business community on a proposal to allow some types of recreational marijuana businesses in town.

The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Cahill Auditorium of town hall.

A proposed zoning change would allow for recreational, or adult use, marijuana growing, production and research facilities in the highway business and commercial districts. The proposal would not allow for recreational marijuana retail shops. 

Flower Xpress has proposed a marijuana cultivation and production facility in the long-vacant warehouse at 280 Ivory St., next to the Braintree MBTA station and across the street from the transfer station.

Councilor-at-large David Ringius, who chairs the ordinance and rules committee, said the meeting has been scheduled because marijuana legalization has been the subject of much discussion in the town.

“I want to give everyone on both sides of the issue a chance to comment,” Ringius said in an interview.

He noted that in the 2016 state referendum which legalized recreational marijuana, the vote in Braintree was 10,985 to 9,251 against the measure.

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