Medical Marijuana Clinic Moves From Niles To Morton Grove

Green Bliss Clinic, which has two doctors on staff who will examine patients in order to possibly recommend them to receive medical marijuana when it becomes legal in Illinois Jan. 1, has moved from Niles to Morton Grove.

Some Niles village board members said they were not comfortable with having it in town, and the village staff found it did not meet the zoning requirements at its space in the 7500 block of Milwaukee Avenue, just south of Howard Street. 


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Joseph Dadivas, who has a masters degree in healthcare management and manages Green Bliss Clinic, said they have moved to a location at 6018, 6020 and 6022 West Dempster Street in Morton Grove. 

The two doctors who practice in the clinic are his father and brother.

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They were seeking more parking spaces, because parking at the Milwaukee Avenue location had become a problem, Joseph Dadivas said. After Green Bliss opened Oct. 4, a podiatrist's office opened, he said, and between the two of them, their patients used most of the 25 parking spaces in the lot, even though there were several more businesses, he said.

"There were 10 operating businesses, but only 25 parking spaces," he said. "Some of our patients had to park across the street and cross Milwaukee Avenue."

The new location has plenty of parking, he said. They are doing electrical work and other updating and maintenance to bring the 1960s-era office space up to building code, Dadivas said, and expect to open to see patients right around Christmas Day.

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Dadivas said the two doctors in the clinic had seen "a few hundred" people each week, and that the volume of patients had been increasing as Jan. 1, when medical marijuana becomes legal in Illinois, neared.