Amoeba Music competes for medical marijuana dispensary permit

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In an effort to increase revenue, Amoeba Music is looking to expand its business beyond selling music as it competes for a permit to open Berkeley’s fourth medical marijuana dispensary.

Berkeley is currently host to three legal medical marijuana dispensaries. In 2010, Berkeley voters passed Measure T, which allowed for the creation of a fourth dispensary.

If Amoeba is chosen to receive the permit, it plans to pull merchandise from its current jazz and classical room, consolidating the store into one main space. The jazz and classical room would be converted into a completely separate building, creating two separate storefronts rather than incorporating the dispensary into the main music store.

“There have been, culturally, connections between cannabis and music making … that’s not our point,” said Marc Weinstein, co-founder and co-owner of Amoeba Music.

Weinstein believes that opening a dispensary could bring customer bases of up to 100,000 flocking to...

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