A Budding Business: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Popping Up Across the State

By BARBARA HEINS & WENDY ANN MITCHELL (Patch Staff)

Currently there are six medical marijuana dispensaries in Connecticut, including one in Bethel, and there is a proposal to increase that number to nine, the Hartford Courant reports.

D&B Wellness , LLC opened their Compassionate Care Center last year in Bethel at 4 Garella Road, which is zoned for retail use. Owners Angela D’Amico and Karen Barski said on their website, “We are long time practitioners with decades of combined experience operating, managing, and administering care and non-care based businesses, all of whom are personally invested in the betterment of their peers and the belief in cannabis as an effective medication.”

The emphasis is on adding locations in both Fairfield and New Haven counties, and 16 applications have been received including one from Better Healing, LLC, 3 Clover Court, Brookfield. The proposed location of the firm’s dispensary was not disclosed.

There are 5,337 registered patients and the state will make a decision early next year on where to add the new dispensaries.

Read the full Hartford Courant story here.

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