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Fishtown: Owner Vipul Patel Opened The City’s First Legal Marijuana Dispensary

June 14, 2018 Jake Gibbons 2

Behind tinted storefront glass and an intercom-locked door, lies Vipul Patel’s vision: spotless walls and slick flooring, flanked by flat screen displays and colored bleach-white, with a painstakingly grown ivy backdrop behind the front desk. [continue reading…]

Fishtown: Pastor Eric Dorsey Treats The Person, Not The Issue

June 7, 2018 Jake Gibbons 4

Pastor Eric Dorsey is the director of the Philadelphia Brotherhood Mission Ministries shelter project at the corner of Columbia and East Girard avenues in Fishtown. For the past four years, Dorsey has continued an endeavor [continue reading…]

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Fishtown: Owner Vipul Patel Opened The City’s First Legal Marijuana Dispensary

Fishtown: Pastor Eric Dorsey Treats The Person, Not The Issue