A3 + PLUS >> Cops: Man shot after stealing broken gun, 2A PREP FOOTBALL NFL Williams to miss CHS Former players taking playoff game Friday revenge tour vs. Jags See Page 10A See Page 10A THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM ‘Very, very tough year’ TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Trulieve Medical Marijuana Treatment Center cus- tomers and employees congregate around the center Wednesday morning during the facility’s grand open- ing. Trulieve is the first medical marijuana dispensary to open in Columbia County. County’s first medical Photos by TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter marijuana Inga Dwyer, Toys for Tots coordinator for Columbia and Suwannee counties, stands behind a row of toys in her office on Wednesday. joint opens Covid delayed Toys for Tots fundraising Local dispensary open the first dispensary in By TONY BRITT a new area like Lake City,”
[email protected] is Trulieve’s 67th Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers store in Florida. said in a release. “Expanding Toys for Tots hasn’t medical cannabis access for escaped covid-19’s wrath. By TONY BRITT patients in Lake City benefits For eight months, the
[email protected] those who have incorporat- coronavirus pandemic has ed cannabis into their daily adversely impacted the A Columbia County store routines, and gaining new economy, jobs and hous- is now in the legal medical members of the communi- ing. Now it looks like it marijuana dispensary busi- ty who may have been dis- may have the same impact ness. suaded from trying cannabis on the local Toys for Tots The county’s first medi- because of lack of access.