Cambridge takes out peace pipe over pot shops

The threat of being held in contempt appears to have convinced Cambridge officials it was time to take out the peace pipe.

The city announced, without elaborating, that it will now be accepting applications for community host cannabis agreements with the city.

It was welcome news for a medical pot shop in Cambridge looking to sell to all adults.

“It is regrettable that the leadership of the City of Cambridge appears to believe that it is free to disregard the law, and that affected parties are required to go to court as a result to obtain judicial supervision,” attorney Jeffrey Robbins told the Herald on Friday.

Robbins, with the law firm Boston law firm Saul, Ewing, Arnstein and Lehr, represents Revolutionary Clinics, a medical pot shop owner in Cambridge that is seeking a license to sell to adult users.

Revolutionary Clinics filed a request for a finding of “civil contempt” against Cambridge this week for not dropping a two-year ban on legal weed stores opening up for adult use.

A Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled late last month that the city’s two-year moratorium on Revolutionary Clinics opening a full retail pot shop “violates the Home Rule Amendment” to the Massachusetts Constitution and state cannabis law.

Cambridge had filed an emergency motion to freeze that ruling, but has now backed off.

There are more than 30 retail pot shops in Massachusetts, but none in Cambridge or Boston.