Longtime Haverhill business owner Caroline Pineau’s proposed cannabis shop has received priority status from the state—but closer to home, she continues to face an uphill battle.
Pursing a downtown dispensary for the past several months, The Yoga Tree’s Pineau tells WHAV she’s put off by city officials’ 11th hour proposal of a traffic study that could delay her possible opening by six months. Adding to the confusion, Pineau said, is the fact that Mayor James J. Fiorentini previously told her he was willing to support not only one but two downtown dispensaries.
With this about-face—put on Tuesday’s City Council agenda by President John A. Michitson—Pineau believes out-of-town applicants interested in other parts of Haverhill could have an “unfair advantage.”
“There are no traffic questions when other new businesses open up downtown: Why single out a cannabis shop?” she wondered.
