A Chicago zoning board approved plans for a marijuana dispensary at the former Rainforest Cafe in River North.
The board heard the case for four hours, then voted 3-1 in favor of the application after reconvening around 12:45 a.m. Saturday following a closed session.
Brown questioned the partners' eligibility under state law as a social equity firm - the qualifying factor allowing the companies to open a Consume brand dispensary in River North, an area that's already packed with weed shops. The company eventually teamed up with BioPharm, a social equity firm that was awarded a conditional license in a state-run lottery. BioPharm qualifies as a social equity firm because chief operating officer Kevin Munroe's father, Michael Munroe, who did not attend Friday's meeting, had a misdemeanor marijuana conviction in the 1970s.
Mara Georges, the former top City Hall lawyer who is representing both cannabis companies, pointed to an Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation advisory notice earlier this year that said social equity applicants can have a conditional management agreement with a non-social equity applicant.
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