Alternative Compassion Services (ACS) Hull’s first Medical Cannabis dispensary, opened in February of 2021 providing our high quality medical cannabis products and excellent service while focusing on patient education, safety, and community support.
Located in Hull’s Marijuana Overlay District, ACS’s second retail location at 175 George Washington Boulevard registered as a Medical Marijuana Treatment Center (medical retail only). For the past year and a half ACS has been a quiet, compliant, Hull neighbor, member of the Chamber of Commerce, actively involved in their events, provided education at Senior Centers locally and in surrounding towns, offered weekly ACS tours and MeetN’Greets, participated in Veteran’s events, donated to local organizations, such as Hull Lifesaving Museum, The Anchor, No Place For Hate, and Porchfest. We hear testimonies daily about our fabulous staff whose knowledge and passion for sharing the medical benefits of cannabis has made a difference in people’s lives. In our Outreach efforts prior to Regular Town Meeting in May 2023 and Special Town Meeting in August 2023 we got to work educating and attempting to change the stigma around cannabis use, making many friends along the way. There is still much work to be done but from most accounts, ACS has been appreciated by both medical patients and Hull residents who at the Special Town Meeting August 31st voted overwhelmingly (283-60) to overturn Zoning and General bans on Recreational Cannabis Sales and to allow ACS to add Adult Use Cannabis Sales to our Medical Dispensary. Our next steps are negotiating a new Host Community Agreement with the Town, moving forward with the process required for a currently licensed and operating business and then to submit an application with the Cannabis Control Commission. We recently worked through this process in our Bridgewater location after a January 7th 2023 Ballot Vote overturned the Recreational Cannabis ban there. As a licensed locally owned and operated seed-to-sale medical cannabis dispensary, ACS has been compliantly cultivating, producing, and dispensing cannabis to medical patients, at 693 Elm Street in Bridgewater, for five years without incident. Thus, the Town required only a signed Host Community Agreement and we continued on to work on submitting our CCC application.
All product for the Hull location has been transferred from ACS’s Bridgewater location, in a safe and secure manner, during hours of operation. ACS also offers a Home Medical Delivery program to registered qualifying patients in the Hull area, as well as Veteran and Verified Financial Hardship discounts.
Hull townspeople and other qualified registered patients and caregivers have had safe access to regulated cannabis medicine for the past year and a half. We understand that for many reasons, people may not wish to become patients and now that Hull has voted to allow Recreational Cannabis Sales, deserve to have access to our products and services. As a reminder, the 175 GWB location has a 500-foot buffer zone from existing public or private schools (K-12), playgrounds, and recreational parks, a state of the art security and surveillance system, policies and procedures that ensure public safety as required by state laws and CCC regs. To enter the building, patients must provide a State ID and a Medical Marijuana Program ID. Recreationall customers >21 must show a valid ID to prevent diversion to minors.
ACS seeks to hire and train for security and retail positions from the town of Hull and surrounding communities disproportionately harmed by cannabis prohibition.
We remain committed to our goal of helping patients find the right form of medical cannabis for their individual needs and offer private consultations or group educational seminars. We intend to provide the same, quality cannabis, service, and education to our new Recreational (Adult Use) customers in our warm and professional environment.
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