COLFAX — Placer County’s only medical dispensary has opened again in Colfax after an absence of five years.
The re-opening of Golden State Patient Care, 233 Highway 174, comes two months after a tumultuous Colfax City Council meeting and a 3-2 vote allowing the medical dispensary to renew its business license.
Golden State Patient Care initially opened in Colfax in 2003 but ceased operations at the 233 Highway 174 site in 2012. The city pulled its business permit on the premise that it had closed — triggering a loss of the permit after it had been grandfathered in when Colfax banned dispensaries.
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Owner Jim Dion had argued that he had closed but only temporarily to make renovations. It took him five years to find a City Council friendly to that argument.
Five years later, with new City Council members on board and Dion finding new legal representation, Golden State Patient Care was given the go-ahead to renew its license and reopen.
Dion said that planning and building permits were secured before the occupancy permit was granted Tuesday.
The dispensary opened with 10 employees — many of them members of Dion’s family — at 10 a.m. on Friday. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week.
