SOUTHWICK — It may now be only a few weeks until the town begins soliciting requests for information from those interested in opening a recreational marijuana store in town, after the Select Board agreed to a scoring system that will be used to vet and choose two business with which the town will negotiate host agreements.
“I like the idea of a rubric. It mitigates the scoring bias,” said Select Board Chair Douglas Moglin, referring to the scoring form developed fellow board member Diane Gale.
Since Southwick residents approved a zoning bylaw in December to allow recreational marijuana sales in town, Gale has been refining an application that the Select Board will use to pick from a group of now six individuals and businesses that expressed interest in opening a retail operation in town.
