Editor s Note: This story has been updated to correct the location of Mark Scott s arrest. He was taken into custody at his home in Barnstable Village. He also owned a home in Hyannisport at the time.
WELLFLEET Two years ago, David Pike sat down with the Wellfleet Select Board to pitch his plan for a retail marijuana store at the old general store off Route 6.
The shop may finally open this year, but Pike won’t be there.
He left the company, and is expected to plead guilty in June to conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his alleged participation in a global cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say defrauded investors out of $4 billion.
PROVINCETOWN The Cape’s first two recreational marijuana shops opened their doors in 2020, and several more are hoping to follow suit in 2021.
A handful of shops in Eastham and Wellfleet are awaiting inspections and final approvals from the state and could be open within a few months. A recreational shop at a medical dispensary in Mashpee could open this year and several other adult-use stores are in the pipeline in Provincetown.
When a lot of these will actually open depends on when they get on the agenda of the Cannabis Control Commission, the state agency that oversees marijuana business in Massachusetts.