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Marijuana firm revisiting plans for dispensary
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Town hearing unites council and residents in opposition to move BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN MedMen, a medical marijuana company which was seeking to relocate a dispensary to Manhasset, is reviewing its options, a representative for the company said at a contentious and crowded North Hempstead Town Board meeting last Thursday night. “Thank you to everybody,” Landon Dais, a former political affairs manager representing the company, told board members and meeting attendees. “And I will say, based on community feedback, we are revisiting plans and reviewing our options.” In an interview, Dais and Daniel Yi, MedMen’s senior vice president of corporate communications and investor relations, said that they are happy that the community is having a dialogue about marijuana but that there is a lack of education about it. “It’s the responsible thing to do to weigh out the options because we want to be good neighbors,” Yi said. “At the end of the day we want to
be respectful of the residents’ issues. Having said that, what’s apparent to us is there is a lot of education that still needs to happen within the Manhasset community.” Residents flooded the boardroom and hall immediately outside it as the town prepared to set a public hearing date of Nov. 20 for two laws seeking to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. The two proposed amendments to the zoning code would restrict a medical marijuana dispensary from operating in a retail environment, town officials said, while restricting dispensaries from opening in close proximity to schools, houses of worship and residential areas. “We’re really going to see everything we can do,” Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth told a room full of residents. And if officials “face a lawsuit,” Bosworth continued, “bring it on.” The proposals came in response to MedMen’s seeking to relocate a medical marijuana dispensary from Continued on Page 93
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From left, Eva Williams, Karen Connolly, Martha Overton, Juliana Armusewicz and Dr. Karen Kostroff, who treated the three sisters and their mother for breast cancer over a 25-year period. See story on page 69.
Legislature OKs funds to partly open 6th Pct. BY T E R I W EST
million bundle to reopen the 6th and 8th Precincts. The 6th Precinct is curThe county Legislature rently part of the 3rd Precinct unanimously passed an amendPAGE 12 after they were consolidated in ment Monday for the partial 2012, a cost-saving move that reopening of the 6th Police The amendment desig- sparked community protest Precinct on the North Shore, according to the Democratic nates $800,000 in funding for and led to efforts by politicians the reopening, part of a $1.6 Continued on Page 83 minority caucus.
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