ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor.
“See? I told you so.” — The title of Rush Limbaugh’s second book.
Not long ago I responded to citizens’ complaints about five marijuana businesses coming to Wayland shortly after the city adopted an ordinance permitting marijuana dispensaries to do business here.
A couple of years later, we’re down to just two such facilities.
We received the news earlier this year of the Lumberjack dispensary shutting down at West Superior Street near the downtown We’ve heard nothing about further plans for “The Woods” next to the Best Western Hotel.
Now comes the puzzling news that Prosper, the city’s first legal marijuana dispensary, is closing its doors. I was surprised. I thought that one would survive. It was granted a drive-through by the city at its decent location on Clark Street just north of Burger King along West Superior.
The invisible hand of the free market, which Republicans and Libertarians like to use in arguments for and against, has done it its work in “weeding out” those who go and those who stay.
The City of Waylands’s first marijuana business had won a recommendation from the Planning Commission for a drive-through option at its building at 201 Clark St., behind the Burger King restaurant.
So as its stands now, the only remaining dispensaries for cannabis are JARS on South Main Street downtown and the Gas Station store next to Shear Concepts on West Superior.
Perhaps the champions of capitalism and opponents of marijuana use are cheering loudly and proudly.
