Topless Pot Shop Coming to Massachusetts?
Dispensaries have become all the rage in Masschusetts. Cannabis became legal for adults to grow and possess in Massachusetts on December 15, 2016.
BOSTON – JULY 20: A customer makes a purchase from Nicole Oliver, retail supervisor at Berkshire Roots, a pot shop in East Boston during their first day of business, July 20, 2020. It is the City of Boston’s second pot shop to open. (Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Since then, dispensaries in the state have been popping up everywhere.
BOSTON – JULY 20: People stand outside of Berkshire Roots during the pot shop in East Bostons first day of business on July 20, 2020. It is the city’s second pot shop to open. (Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
As of last year, Massachusetts dispensaries have made $3 billion in sales.
BROOKLINE, MA – MARCH 23: Lines of customers wait outside on the first day of recreational marijuana sales at New England Treatment Access in Brookline, MA on March 23, 2013. Greater Bostons first recreational marijuana shop opened in Brookline Village Saturday with all the expected fanfare but none of the traffic disasters town officials had feared. Officials spent months preparing for hundreds – and even thousands – of customers to line up at New England Treatment Access, bringing the potential for clogged sidewalks, packed intersections, and few open parking spots. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
So how will future dispensaries in Massachusetts set themselves apart from the rest? How about offering topless dispensaries? That is one idea being floated around in the town of Whately Massachusetts.
BROOKLINE, MA – MARCH 23: “Ghost train haze” marijuana buds are weighed for a customer on the first day of recreational marijuana sales at New England Treatment Access in Brookline, MA on March 23, 2013. Greater Bostons first recreational marijuana shop opened in Brookline Village Saturday with all the expected fanfare but none of the traffic disasters town officials had feared. Officials spent months preparing for hundreds – and even thousands – of customers to line up at New England Treatment Access, bringing the potential for clogged sidewalks, packed intersections, and few open parking spots. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
According to owners of the strip club “Club Castaway” Nick Spagnola and Julius Sokol “We’re leaning toward cannabis with a twist. … There are a lot of dispensaries open and you need a niche to be successful. Castaways as a strip club would be no more.” Several things need to happen before this potential business is approved. For more information on the potential of a topless dispensary in Massachusetts, CLICK HERE
