In New Orleans, marijuana dispensaries — like the one opening soon in our community — can be granted a permit without any neighborhood notice. And in Louisiana, unlike other neighboring states, dispensaries can open up next to a library or a school or a daycare.
NOLA Cannabis Co. is preparing to open the first medical marijuana dispensary at 1407 S. Carrollton Ave., in the Historic Urban Neighborhood of Carrollton, where we both live. It will be operated and supplied by Good Day Farm Louisiana, the largest grower of medical marijuana in the state.
Good Day Farm is headed by John Davis, whose wife is a legislator. The primary investor for NOLA Cannabis is ‘Boysie’ Bollinger, who is also the primary shareholder in Good Day Farm, which produces 70% of the marijuana grown in Louisiana.
We have grave quality-of-life concerns about the soon-to-open Carrollton dispensary, which stands right next to the Nix Library and within a block of an elementary school and a church. Everything else on that side of Carrollton Avenue is residential…