Fine Fettle, the Vineyard’s only legally-permitted cannabis producer, has stopped growing marijuana on the Island and will close its dispensary later this year.
“Very sadly, we have had to make the decision to slow down and then ultimately shut down operations on the Vineyard,” company president Benjamin Zachs told the Gazette Friday by telephone.
Connecticut-based Fine Fettle purchased the West Tisbury cultivation and retail business in 2021 from Geoff Rose of Patient Centric, Inc., the Island’s first cannabis entrepreneur.
All cannabis sold at retailers on the Island has to be grown on the Island. — Maria Thibodeau
The company grew marijuana indoors at a leased property on Dr. Fisher Road and continues to sell dried flower buds, pre-rolled joints, extracts and edibles from the Fine Fettle dispensary on State Road.
“We do have quite a bit of inventory, and it’s fresh and good,” said Mr. Zachs, who estimated that the dispensary will run of stock and close this fall.
The Vineyard operation failed to succeed due to a combination of regulatory and financial causes, said Mr. Zachs, whose company has another Massachusetts dispensary in Rowley that will remain open.
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