“We will fight this tooth and nail, to the last man,” said Alex Mancebo, a Back Bay resident. “If the applicants want to endure that, we’re ready to do it. We live here.”
The proposal comes from Rooted in Roxbury, a local minority-owned cannabis company. Although Newbury Street hosts tobacco and pipe retailers, there are currently no dispensaries on the strip.
A City Council bill passed Wednesday to shift who in the city can operate marijuana businesses. The licensing process will favor those deemed by various criteria to have been disproportionately affected by weed prohibition in the past.
