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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Having been shut out in the first round of permitting, a Carlisle-based company is still interested in opening up a medical marijuana dispensary on the site of a vacant factory on South Franklin Street.</p><p>If it&#8217;s successful, the Keystone Center of Integrative Wellness would be the second dispensary in the city and the third in Luzerne County.</p><p>&#8220;We strongly are considering it,&#8221; Krista Krebs, a co-owner of the company, said Friday.</p><p>The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday awarded 27 permits in six regions, including two in the Northeast. Columbia Care Pennsylvania LLC received a permit for a property on Kidder Street in Wilkes-Barre and Justice Grown Pennsylvania LLC for a spot in the Gateway Shopping Center in Edwardsville.</p><p>Keystone received a permit for a dispensary in Williamsport in the North Central region. But Krebs said it was the company&#8217;s fourth choice behind locations that included Wilkes-Barre and Mayfield in Lackawanna County.</p><p>The state scored most of the 280 applications for permits, taking into account a variety of factors such as diversity, community impact, sanitation and safety, and employee qualifications. However, the state did not score Keystone&#8217;s Wilkes-Barre permit.</p><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know why it wasn&#8217;t,&#8221; Krebs said, adding Keystone was expecting a letter of explanation from the state.</p><p>A spokesman for the state Department of Health did not respond to inquiry by deadline Friday afternoon.</p><p>Keystone&#8217;s permit for the Williamsport site scored, 700.50 out of 1,000, the second highest overall. Only GTI Pennsylvania LLC in Erie scored higher at 771.50. Columbia Care scored 697.67 and Justice Grown tallied a score of 633.33.</p><p>The applicants can seek a total of three permits per region. But Keystone&#8217;s permit for Williamsport is outside the Northeast region, Krebs said.</p><p>The state will hold another round of permitting and Krebs said Keystone would try again for Wilkes-Barre.</p><p>Krebs and co-owner Mary Pat Julias, an Avoca native, presented the for-profit company&#8217;s plans to city council in March. Council approved the sale of the city-owned property for $100 to Artanor LLC, a Keystone holding company. Artanor would spend between $75,000 to $80,000 to demolish the vacant factory and construct a new building for the dispensary.</p><p>Krebs and Julias assured council that no marijuana would be grown on site or sold through the dispensary. Instead, under the Medical Marijuana Act signed into law last year by Gov. Tom Wolf, medicines derived from the chemicals in marijuana and processed into pills, topical creams and ointments and other forms will be sold to state residents under the care of a physician for treatment of serious medical conditions.</p><p>Last week, the department issued grower/processor permits, including one for a White Haven company, to produce the marijuana in medicinal form to be dispensed within the state. Under the timetable established by the department, the companies have to be operational in six months.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Carlisle-based Keystone Center of Integrative Wellness was not awarded a permit for a proposed medical marijuana dispensary in Wilkes-Barre, but it&#8217;s still interested in building a facility on the site of this abandoned factory on South Franklin Street. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/web1_WB-Buildingrotated.jpg</photo0><caption0>Carlisle-based Keystone Center of Integrative Wellness was not awarded a permit for a proposed medical marijuana dispensary in Wilkes-Barre, but it&#8217;s still interested in building a facility on the site of this abandoned factory on South Franklin Street. </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Jerry Lynott</p><p>jlynott@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Jerry Lynott at 570-991-6120 or on Twitter @TLJerryLynott.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Company to retry for medical marijuana dispensary in Wilkes-Barre