Compassionate Care Clinics is several steps closer to opening a marijuana dispensary in Wareham.

In the two months since Selectmen voted to back the Cape Cod-based company’s bid for a dispensary license, Compassionate Care has secured a Main Street location for the dispensary, won Holliston’s approval to grow the dispensary’s marijuana in that town, and submitted its application for a provisional state license.

If the license is forthcoming, Executive Director Michelle Stormo says the dispensary will likely open in October.

At 112 Main St., the clinic would be located next to Tobey Hospital. As described by Stormo, that address would make it “great for access, in case people are getting treatment there.”

If the license is granted, it will be the third to be issued by the state since voters, in a 2012 referendum, legalized the medical use of marijuana. The first two are open and doing business in Salem and Brockton.

The Compassionate Care operation is headed by Stormo and licensed substance abuse counselor Holly Carol. If the license is approved, the dispensary will be staffed by between eight and 10 people, and will service a range of patients with different illnesses.

The facility itself would not be some cold, white, sterile place, Stormo said. She and Carol want to create a “nurturing environment” for people to receive treatment, and referrals for outside therapy.

“We will be reaching out to professionals in the area, and creating a referral list,” Stormo said. “If people are depressed, or need opiate addiction treatment, we can provide them with names and numbers to help them.”

But not just anyone would be able to (quite literally) walk into the dispensary. Stormo said anyone who wants access to the “highly secure” facility would have to show both a state-issued registration card stating need, as well as photo identification. Staffers for the dispensary would have to pass rigorous background checks.

“At the site, there will be security officers and then dispensary agents, who will be working the front desk,” Stormo said.

The proposal for the dispensary was brought before the Board of Selectmen in October and given verbal support. In November, the Selectmen presented Stormo with a written letter of recommendation for the state’s application process.

Before submitting a formal application to the state, Compassionate Care also had to secure a location to grow its marijuana and the approval of local officials for that cultivation facility.

The state requires a dispensary to grow its own marijuana rather than purchasing it from a third-party grower. Ideally, the cannabis would be grown in a company-owned facility adjacent to a dispensary.

However, in Wareham’s case, zoning bylaws require any marijuana cultivation to be done in the small “institutional zone” surrounding Tobey Hospital. Stormo said Compassionate Care could not find a large enough growing space in that “very, very small area,” and chose to have its growing operation at 201 Summer St. in Holliston.

“We are going to be cultivating and processing it in Holliston, and transporting it to Wareham,” Stormo said. “We found a good-looking building.”

Stormo estimated the growing space would employ between 30 and 50 people by the end of the year.

The town of Holliston granted Stormo a “letter of non-opposition,” allowing the application to be filed.

It is the second dispensary application filed by Stormo’s company. In January 2014, the state granted Compassionate Care Clinics a provisional license to open a dispensary in Fairhaven under the name Brighton Health Advocates.

Under challenge, the state revoked the license in June 2014. After a long legal battle, a judge ruled in August 2015 that the Department of Public Health “failed to follow its own regulations” in revoking the license.

By then, Compassionate Care had moved on to scouting other locations for a dispensary.

As part of the agreement with Wareham, Stormo and the rest of the facility’s administrative staff would be forming a charitable board that will decide where to donate the proceeds from the nonprofit facility. She said there would be two people from Wareham on the board, but have yet to be named.