{"id":4450,"date":"2022-02-25T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEFgkCu0P91BlYffHnUa74Y4qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowiMz3CjChn9cCML3NpAY"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:02:00","slug":"marijuana-applicant-claims-council-denied-him-based-on-past-arrest-masslive-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=4450","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana applicant claims council denied him based on past arrest &#8211; MassLive.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"multimedia-main\">\n<figure class=\"article__image\">\n<div class=\"article__image-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/marijuana-applicant-claims-council-denied-him-based-on-past-arrest-masslive-com.jpg\" alt=\"Richter Cannabis 1\" class=\"article__image-content\" height=\"600\" width=\"300\"><figcaption class=\"article__image-caption\">\n<p class=\"article__mm-image-caption-text\">Mark Dupuis stands with some of his cannabis processing equipment in the proposed home of Richter Extracts at 69 Neck Road, Westfield. (MICHAEL BALLWAY \/ THE WESTFIELD NEWS)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sharebar\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/2022\/02\/marijuana-applicant-claims-council-denied-him-based-on-past-arrest.html\" data-title=\"Marijuana applicant claims council denied him based on past arrest\">\n<div class=\"sharebar__options\">\n<div class=\"sharebar__option sharebar__option--facebook\"><button class=\"sharebar__button sharebar__button--facebook\" title=\"1 Facebook shares\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"36\" width=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/pf\/resources\/images\/common\/logos\/facebook.svg?d=759\" alt=\"Facebook Logo\"><\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharebar__option sharebar__option--twitter\"><button class=\"sharebar__button sharebar__button--twitter\" title=\"2 Twitter shares\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"36\" width=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/pf\/resources\/images\/common\/logos\/twitter.svg?d=759\" alt=\"Twitter Logo\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__story paywall\">\n<div class=\"entry-content \">\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PQBDIARO4FEVBFZIFADA7BJJ3I\">WESTFIELD \u2014 The City Council unfairly discriminated against a social equity applicant when it denied host community agreements for two marijuana businesses, the applicant said this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DGY7F4NC7NE6PETTCHEGF2BQYA\">Mark Dupuis, the owner of Richter Extracts and a shareholder in Richter Cannabis, both of which were proposed for a vacant factory at 69 Neck Road, said he believes his arrest record was held against him when the council voted 9-2 on Feb. 17 not to authorize the mayor to sign host community agreements with the two marijuana businesses. Such agreements are required as part of the Cannabis Control Commission licensing process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"skimlinks\">Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dupuis stands with some of his cannabis processing equipment in the proposed home of Richter Extracts at 69 Neck Road, Westfield. (MICHAEL BALLWAY \/ THE WESTFIELD NEWS) WESTFIELD \u2014 The City Council unfairly discriminated against a social equity applicant when it denied host community agreements for two marijuana businesses, the applicant said this week. Mark Dupuis, the owner of Richter Extracts and a shareholder in Richter Cannabis, both of which were proposed for a vacant factory at 69 Neck Road, said he believes his arrest record was held against him when the council voted 9-2 on Feb. 17 not&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/marijuana-applicant-claims-council-denied-him-based-on-past-arrest-masslive-com.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}