{"id":9273,"date":"2020-09-15T22:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T22:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/09\/15\/reaction-mixed-to-pot-shop-proposed-in-roxburys-nubian-square\/135052\/"},"modified":"2020-09-15T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T22:50:47","slug":"reaction-mixed-to-pot-shop-proposed-in-roxburys-nubian-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/reaction-mixed-to-pot-shop-proposed-in-roxburys-nubian-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction mixed to pot shop proposed in Roxbury&#8217;s Nubian Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/reaction-mixed-to-pot-shop-proposed-in-roxburys-nubian-square\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/potms002-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reaction-mixed-to-pot-shop-proposed-in-roxburys-nubian-square.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reaction-mixed-to-pot-shop-proposed-in-roxburys-nubian-square-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/09\/15\/reaction-mixed-to-pot-shop-proposed-in-roxburys-nubian-square\/135052\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135052\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people in Roxbury on Tuesday said they would welcome a proposed recreational marijuana dispensary in Nubian Square, even as the head of a neighborhood group said a \u201cdrug den\u201d would not help to revitalize the community.<\/p>\n<p>Rooted in Roxbury, a Black-owned business, wants to open its store in the predominantly Black neighborhood, where several store fronts stand empty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore cannabis was legalized in Massachusetts, it was here, and it was unsafe because you didn\u2019t know what it was laced with when you were buying it on the street,\u201d Brian Keith, one of the company\u2019s four owners, said. \u201cWe\u2019re offering a safe alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2020\/09\/15\/reaction-mixed-to-pot-shop-proposed-in-roxburys-nubian-square\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people in Roxbury on Tuesday said they would welcome a proposed recreational marijuana dispensary in Nubian Square, even as the head of a neighborhood group said a \u201cdrug den\u201d would not help to revitalize the community. Rooted in Roxbury, a Black-owned business, wants to open its store in the predominantly Black neighborhood, where several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,528,8232,9,1407,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,3102,8234,3976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}