Barnstable County Receives Nine Medical Marijuana Applicants

Written by Ryan Grannan-Doll and Adam Roberts

Barnstable County has recieved nine applications for medical marijuana dispensaries, but, at the moment, there is no word on the communities that would host them.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health released the list of applications on Friday, which also include applications for the state’s other counties. In total, 181 applications were submitted.

The following applicants and application contact persons expressed interest in opening a dispensary in Barnstable County:

• Cape Cod Alternative Medicine Ctr., Inc., James  B. Stinson
• East Coast Wellness Center, Inc., Jesse Mayo
• Health Betterment Corporation, Leonard McCue
• JCS Holdings Inc., Christopher Taloumis
• Kingsbury Group Inc., Mark Wallace
• Kingsbury Group Inc., Mark Wallace
• Medisand Inc., Robert Anderson
• Planting Hope, Kevin Kilduff, Esq.
• The William Noyes Webster Foundation Inc., Jane Heatley
  

Forty-seven applications have been submitted for medical marijuana dispensaries in Middlesex County. Bristol county received nine applications, Berkshire County received three, Dukes County got four, Essex County received 16, Franklin County got seven, Hampden County got 13 and Hampshire County got five. Nantucket County received two applications, Norfolk County got 12, Plymouth County got 19, Suffolk County got 21 and Worcester County received 14. 

See the full list.

In September, the DPH will specify which applicants will move to the final phase of the application process, according to WBUR. The DPH has said it could approve up to 35 dispensaries statewide by January. State law prohibits more than five per county.