MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It used to promote liquor and thrift garments, however it is going to quickly turn out to be a dispensary.
An previous constructing in Byhalia might be renovated and changed into a medical marijuana dispensary.
The Interim Mayor and Board of Aldermen mentioned sure to the challenge by one vote earlier this week.
It makes Byhalia the primary municipality within the state to permit a dispensary.
Zack Wilson, who’s the Vice President of a gaggle that pushed for Mississippi’s new medical marijuana program, mentioned he plans to pour 1 / 4 of one million {dollars} into the challenge.
He desires to have it open by Thanksgiving.
”After I was a child, it was an open retailer, and it meets the entire necessities so far as distance. It meets all the necessities. It’s been vacant, as an alternative of constructing a brand new constructing. Let’s repair what we’ve got,” Wilson mentioned.
Wilson additionally mentioned he’s opening right here as a result of it’s in a small city wedged between Olive Department and Holly Springs, and he’ll be capable to serve a lot of completely different communities.
Jimmy Hankins, of Byhalia, likes the thought.
“That may be good. That may be very nice. I don’t smoke marijuana, however that may be good for someone,” Hankins mentioned.
However some have questions in regards to the drug falling into the incorrect arms.
Wilson informed FOX13 when the dispensary opens, there might be guards in the course of the day.
There may even be safety cameras, and at night time all medical marijuana merchandise might be locked in a vault in what was once an previous liquor retailer.
”Will probably be good for the town of Byhalia. Individuals are going to drink whiskey regardless, however to show it right into a marijuana factor, that might be good too,” James Dockery mentioned.
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