Pure Oasis marijuana dispensary open again in Boston

BOSTON — Customers are back in line as the owners of the Pure Oasis, a marijuana dispensary in Boston, cleaned up and added up losses.

The store was looted in the aftermath of a riots that ravaged Boston after a peaceful protest on Sunday.

Pure Oasis is the first black-owned marijuana dispensary in Boston. They opened their doors in Dorchester in March and had to close soon after for the pandemic.

The store was finally allowed to re-open two months later on Memorial Day. One week later their store was targeted in the looting and riots that swept across Boston Sunday night into Monday morning. Co-owner Kevin Hart says, “Our store was looted after the protest for George Floyd.”

Kobie Evans is the other a co-owner and says he watched surveillance video a day after. He tells Boston 25 it all unfolded at one o’clock on Monday morning. “It was a melee. Maybe a dozen cars or so out front them a whole bunch of young people jumped out and they just overwhelmed the store,” he said.

The store suffered nearly $100,000 dollars in losses. Hart says, “The people were definitely looking for cannabis. They knew that’s what we sold and they hit the right spot.”

Police and the Cannabis Control Commission are investigating. Both of the owners say one thing is clear to them. What happened here had nothing to do with peaceful protests earlier on Sunday. Evans says, “No, the people who did this were not concerned about Floyd or black-owned businesses.”

The owners say what took place is just a setback. They are open again and doing business to serve the community in which they fought so hard to open their doors.

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