A Ward 5 ANC wasn’t particularly impressed with four applicants for medical marijuana cultivation center licenses yesterday, and even Montel Williams’ emotional pleas seemed to change their minds.

Former talk show host Montel Williams is one of medical marijuana’s biggest proponents (he’s also a patient), but his dreams to open a Columbia Road NW dispensary seem to have been dashed by a nervous landlord.

Montel Williams has been many things in his career, and medical marijuana patient, advocate and entrepreneur is one. Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 13 years ago, Williams has used and fought for medical marijuana in eight of the 16 states that currently allow it.