Black Harbor Group has run into complications after the building it was hoping to open a dispensary in was leased to a competitor.
In a unanimous vote Thursday, the West Tisbury zoning board of appeals approved Black Harbor Group's plans to run the grow facility on Dr. Fisher Road, rekindling the chances of Island-grown marijuana in dispensaries.
Fine Fettle, which has sold marijuana along State Road in West Tisbury since 2021, is planning to transfer ownership to Black Harbor Group.
With the Island’s supply of legal marijuana dwindling, state regulators broke more than a decade of precedent to allow dispensaries on the Vineyard to ship in mainland cannabis products.
State cannabis regulators came to the Island Thursday to hear from local cannabis producers, retailers, and medical and recreational consumers who say that a ban on the transport of cannabis by ferry will put the Island’s legal cannabis sellers out of business.
A lawsuit between the Island Time dispensary and the state Cannabis Control Commission has been paused just days before the commission plans to visit Oak Bluffs to talk about marijuana access issues on the Vineyard.