Following landlord lawsuit, cannabis company with Fitchburg cultivation closes Cambridge dispensary
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Revolutionary Clinics, a cannabis company with a cultivation in Fitchburg, has closed its Central Square location in Cambridge.
Revolutionary Clinics, a cannabis company with a cultivation and production facility in Fitchburg, has closed one of its Cambridge dispensaries.
The dispensary, located in Cambridge’s Central Square at 541 Massachusetts Ave., permanently closed on May 27, according to a post on the company’s website. The closure follows a lawsuit from the property’s owner accusing the company of failing to make rent payments.
Revolutionary is the Massachusetts manufacturer of Papi Cannabis products, a brand launched by former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the summer of 2022.
“We closed our medical dispensary location at 541 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge on May 27th,” Ashley Esper, vice president of marketing, wrote in an email to WBJ. “We are kindly directing patients to our two other medical dispensary locations, both less than 4 miles from 541 Massachusetts Ave.: 110 Fawcett Street in Cambridge (medical only), and 67 Broadway Street in Somerville (medical and adult-use).”
Revolutionary’s Massachusetts Avenue store only served registered medical marijuana patients.
There were 88,387 certified active medical marijuana patients in Massachusetts in May, according to data released by the state Cannabis Control Commission, a 6.8% decline from the 94,792 certified active patients in May 2023.
The lawsuit against the company, filed in Middlesex County Superior Court in March, seeks $293,548 in damages, alleging Revolutionary failed to pay over four months' worth of rent for the Massachusetts Avenue store. The case is still pending in front of the court.
Revolutionary’s Fitchburg facility was constructed in 2017. In 2020, the company was hit with a $120,000 fine and four months of probation by the state’s Cannabis Control Commission after the agency found it manufactured and sold vaporizer cartridges exceeding allowed state limits for ethanol in late 2018 and early 2019.
Revolutionary has 213 employees in Central Massachusetts and 313 employees statewide in 2024, according to data provided to the WBJ Research Department via survey, making it the largest cannabis company in Central Massachusetts.
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