Within a couple years, Connecticut may not have any dispensaries that only serve medical cannabis patients.
With its current lease expiring in the near future, the last medical-only dispensary remaining in the state, Bluepoint Wellness, has a plan to temporarily move within Westport while it prepares to open a hybrid shop elsewhere, according to application materials filed with the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission.
Bluepoint Wellness, the first and only medical cannabis dispensary in Westport, opened in late 2019. Unlike other medical dispensaries in the state, it hasn’t become a hybrid retailer that sells products to both patients and recreational consumers.
Not that Bluepoint Wellness hasn’t tried.
In 2021, after the enactment of the state law that legalized possession and use of cannabis by adults, Westport’s Planning and Zoning Commission amended the town’s zoning code to prohibit any cannabis businesses except medical dispensaries from setting up shop in town, as it was allowed to do by the law. At the time, the commission cited concerns about a recreational dispensary worsening traffic problems.
