Cannabis seller releases a promise to add 50 hires just as an extension of ban arrives before council

Revolutionary Clinics, which has storefronts in Central Square and Alewife, as well as one in Somerville, said starting pay would be $19.23 an hour and time-and-a-half for working holidays and Sundays, and that there would be a healthy set of benefits that includes three weeks of paid time off.

The press release about hirings was written and scheduled before company executives became aware of the Monday agenda item, the company said, but they had since become aware of City Council discussions on extending the ban due to take place a few hours later.

The model was intended to favor the disadvantaged, mainly people of color who were penalized disproportionately during the nation’s long war on drugs.

Voters statewide approved had recreational marijuana in November 2016, with Cambridge voters approving it at a higher rate – but more than four and a half years later, the nearest adult-use cannabis sales are in Watertown or across the river in Boston or Brookline.

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