Earlier this month, the state’s Department of Consumer Protection awarded licenses to open three more pot dispensaries in the state — and two of them are in Milford.

If there’s one lesson Vincent Lambiase has learned in more than 30 years as a small business owner, it’s to avoid locating two businesses of the same kind too close together.

“Would you open a pizza parlor near another pizza parlor or a flower shop near another flower shop?” said Lambiase, owner of Beachwood Florist in Milford.

By that same logic, he said, opening two medical marijuana facilities within a few miles of one another sounds like bad business. But that’s exactly what’s happening in Milford.

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Amanda Cuda ~ CTPost.com ~