With the opening of a medical cannabis dispensary this week, Brattleboro will join Burlington, Montpelier, and Brandon as locations that provide marijuana under the provisions of a new state law.
Shayne Lynn of Southern Vermont Wellness plans on opening the new clinic on Thursday in the Vermont Building at 1222 Putney Rd., next door to the North Brattleboro post office, the Internal Revenue Service, several insurance agencies, and other medical offices.
According to the Vermont Criminal Information Center, 106 patients who qualify under the law as living with “debilitating medical conditions” were registered in Windham County as of last August to legally buy marijuana for therapeutic purposes.
Marijuana has been legal under state law since 2007, but until further legislation in 2011, which created a mechanism for legally growing and distributing the drug for patients, patients were on their own.