UPDATE – 11:30 a.m. State Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein said D&B Wellness, Inc., will not receive another extension to the Thursday deadline by which they must secure a location with zoning approval to open their medical marijuana dispensary.
Should they fail to meet the deadline, Rubenstein said the state’s medical marijuana program will go forward with only five of the six companies offered licenses to open dispensaries. That would leave patients in Fairfield County without a dispensary in their home county.
“We’ll move the program forward with the five licensees that have already been awarded and then we’ll consider as the program starts to open up the extent to which we’re going to accept other applications,” he said.
It turns out Redding will not become Fairfiled County’s hub for the state’s newest business, medical marijuana.
D&B Wellness, Inc., one of six companies selected by the state Department of Consumer Protection to receive licensing for medical marijuana dispensaries, withdrew their application to the town zoning office, said Karen Barski, co-founder of the company. The company was seeking to set up shop on Old Mill Road above a barbecue restaurant, which would have required the town zoning commission to approve a land-use change for the property.
Details on the company’s future plans were not immediately available this morning.
The state Department of Consumer Protection had extended an initial 30-day deadline for potential licencees to secure zoning approval by another 15 days, ending this Thursday.