Displaced Bernal Heights marijuana dispensary finds new home in former gun shop
After being forced out of its home of a decade, a Bernal Heights medical marijuana dispensary was approved Thursday to open nearby in what was — up until 2015 — San Francisco’s last remaining gun shop.
The Planning Commission voted 7-0 Thursday night to grant a permit to the Bernal Heights Cooperative to open for business at 3185 Mission Street, the site of the now-shuttered High Bridge Arms gun shop. The gun shop closed in 2015 after the Board of Supervisors imposed tougher controls on gun sales.
Dispensary applicant Sean Killen told the San Francisco Examiner on Friday that after obtaining a permit from the Department of Public Health, which is expected, he could have the doors open as early as March 1.
Medical marijuana dispensaries can often get caught up in politically-charged debates if community members object to their presence. But in Killen’s case, opposition seemed scarce and commissioners sympathized with his eviction. Killen had joined the dispensary in 2015 in an effort to save it.
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