Here comes another twist in Maricopajuana’s joint

If you’re expecting to score some choice bud at Maricopa’s future Trulieve cannabis store, you might be more dazed and confused than an all-night binge bonger.

The store’s name is now marketed as Nirvana, not Trulieve, and we don’t mean a defunct grunge band from Aberdeen, Wash.

City leaders have given Trulieve the green light to build a store at the future shopping center being developed on the southeast corner of John Wayne Parkway and Honeycutt Avenue. The pot shop, as planned, will be in a building just south of the soon-to-come Lowe’s Home Improvement store.

InMaricopa asked city spokesperson Monica Williams if the name change will affect Trulieve’s original building permit, which has been a controversy of its own because it was too close to Maricopa High School and a church.

So, after a year, the developer came back with a new location barely outside the state-allowed 1,500-foot perimeter from a school or church.

It took the company more than a year to secure a building permit and ground was recently broken — meaning potheads will soon be smokin’ — in Marijuanacopa.

“At this time, the city has not received any requests to change the name of the Trulieve project,” Williams said. “The building permit has been granted and issued under Trulieve.”

But the Nirvana website states a dispensary is “coming soon” to Maricopa.

A look at Small Business Administration records shows Nirvana is a Colorado subsidiary of Trulieve, the third most moneymaking cannabis chain in the U.S.

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