Dispensary application fails to get a motion at City Council; to be reheard in June

An application for a Special Use Permit for a new medical marijuana dispensary in the vacant building to the east of Torchy’s bar at 704 East Dewey failed to receive a motion from City Council on Monday evening, and therefore, no action was taken. 

Urban Development Director Nikki Howard reported her recommendations to the Council, saying that the applicant Mike McSweeney and his wife Monica, co-owners of Zen Budz (on Teel, just west of Main), “put the medicinal in ‘medicinal marijuana,’” with their inclusion of counseling services alongside retail sales. She said “I have heard nothing but really, really good things about their dispensary. And we don’t always hear good things.”