Political and community opposition to a proposed medical marijuana dispensary planned for Northwest Philadelphia has forced its owners to pull up stakes and look for another location.
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TerraVida Holistic Center, which has two additional dispensaries slated for the Philadelphia suburbs of Sellersville and Abington, had been granted a permit in June to operate out of a former bank building on the 8300 block of Stenton Avenue in East Mt. Airy. Councilwoman Cherelle L. Parker, who represents the district, led a charge to revoke the dispensary’s zoning permit. Parker argued that the dispensary would be located within 500 feet of an unlicensed child care business and that students would be boarding buses outside the dispensary.
