Proximity to obscure school may force switch in site of marijuana dispensary

“Northeast Patients Group has identified a brick and granite building at Congress and St. John streets as its preferred site for Portland's first medical marijuana dispensary, which it plans to open in December. But that property appears to be within 500 feet of the Deliverance Center, a church that takes in drug addicts and alcoholics and happens to house a small and little-known private school, the Christian Academy of Portland. ”