Hannah Wyman
ST. LOUIS — A highly debated cannabis dispensary is opening its doors this week, right across the street from one of the city’s first charter schools — but without the drive-thru proposed in its original plan.
Kind Goods will host its grand opening Friday, about 150 feet from the two-decade-old Lift for Life Academy. The school of about 900 students tried to block the marijuana business, but St. Louis city code does not limit where dispensaries can open.
“We’re obviously not happy,” Marshall Cohen, executive director of Lift for Life Academy, said Thursday. “I can’t say how bad it is — no one would have had this at any other school district in the county.”
Originally, Kind Goods had requested a special-use permit from the city so it could operate a drive-thru at the $1.5 million store, but founder Kyle Lenzen said the company pulled the application in the interest of time.
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“We wanted to get open and up and operating to prove to the neighborhood who we are,” Lenzen said. “We want to help build the city of St. Louis back up.”
Lenzen said that the company hasn’t heard anything
