Up next at Long Wharf Theatre (clockwise from top left)?: Model smoking INSA pre-rolled joint; theater’s sign on Sargent Dr.; INSA cannabis chocolates; theater’s current home in the Food Terminal.
Could the Long Wharf stage that hosted performances by Sam Waterston and Anna Deavere Smith become a spot to purchase “Mellow Bar” cannabis chocolates and “Infused Rocket” pre-rolled joints?
That possible future won a vote of support from an aldermanic committee that greenlit the legal sale of marijuana on Long Wharf — including on an industrial stretch of Sargent Drive where a Massachusetts-based cannabis dispensary hopes to move in to the longtime, soon-to-be-former home of Long Wharf Theatre.
The vote came Tuesday night at a Board of Alders Legislation Committee meeting, which was held in person in the Aldermanic Chamber on the second floor of City Hall. The meeting was also live video-streamed online via the alders’ YouTube account.
The committee alders voted unanimously in support of an amended version of a zoning amendment concerning “the responsible and equitable regulation of adult-use cannabis,” as the title of the law change puts it.
That zoning update now advances to the full Board of Alders for a potential debate and final vote.
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