Multi-State MJ Company Seeking Grow Facility in Massachusetts

Hoping to take advantage of Massachusetts’ burgeoning medical cannabis market, a marijuana firm with operations in multiple states has filed for a permit to open a 52-acre grow facility in Freetown, about 50 miles south of Boston.

AmeriCann President and CEO Tim Keogh told The Standard-Times Friday that the publicly traded firm hopes to close the land sale and have its first permits by December.

The goal is to be ready to start construction at the first spring thaw. The town’s planning…