Woburn City Council Approves Medical Marijuana Facility

WOBURN, MA -- City Council approved a special permit for Littleton-based Sanctuary Medicinals, allowing it to open the 4,500-square-foot medical marijuana dispensary on Commerce Way. City Council President Richard Haggerty cast the lone vote opposing the permit, citing the facility's location near proposed housing developments.

Patients would need to get a a medical marijuana prescription card from Massachusetts Department of Public Health to purchase marijuana at Sanctuary's proposed facility. The facility of its kind would be the only one of its kind on the Interstate 93 corridor from Somerville to the New Hampshire, officials from the company said.

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