STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Since adult-use leisure weed grew to become authorized within the state of New York, 4 authorized dispensaries have opened – two in New York Metropolis and two in upstate New York.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act into legislation in March 2021, nevertheless, no dispensaries opened beneath Cuomo’s tenure; the primary adult-use leisure dispensary opened beneath Gov. Kathy Hochul in December 2022.
New York state, by the Workplace of Hashish Administration (OCM) and the Hashish Management Board, set very particular necessities dictating who the primary licenses can be awarded to.
The primary licenses can be Conditional Grownup-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licenses, solely awarded to equity-entrepreneurs with a previous cannabis-related legal offense who even have a background proudly owning and working a small enterprise.
The CAURD licenses are a serious a part of the state’s Seeding Alternative Initiative, which ensures the primary authorized adult-use retail dispensaries will probably be operated by people who’ve been essentially the most impacted by the prohibition on weed.
Initially, OCM mentioned it will concern 150 CAURD licenses, earlier than asserting in March it will concern double that quantity – 300 licenses.
Staten Island will now get six licenses as a substitute of three.
Though no authorized adult-use leisure dispensaries have opened on Staten Island but, there’s one medical dispensary.
There are 40 medical weed dispensaries throughout New York.
LEGAL ADULT-USE RECREATIONAL WEED DISPENSARIES
Under is an inventory of the authorized adult-use leisure dispensaries and medical hashish dispensaries which have opened within the 5 boroughs thus far:
Housing Works Hashish Co., owned by Housing Works, was the primary authorized adult-use leisure dispensary to open its doorways in New York Metropolis on Dec. 29, 2022, at 750 Broadway in Manhattan.
Smacked LLC, owned by Roland Conner, the second authorized adult-use weed dispensary, opened on Jan. 24, 2023, at 144 Bleecker St. in Manhattan.
Simply Breathe, the state’s third authorized weed dispensary and the primary to open in upstate New York, opened on Feb. 10, 2023, at 75 Courtroom St. in Binghamton, New York.
William Jane, the second authorized weed dispensary, opened on March 16, 2023, at 119-121 East State St. in Ithaca, New York.
MEDICAL CANNABIS DISPENSARIES
STATEN ISLAND
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Citiva Medical LLC: Be.
338 New Dorp Ln., Staten Island, N.Y. 10306
917-426-8590
Medical allotting facility solely
BRONX
PharmaCann of New York, LLC: Verilife
25-27 West Fordham Rd., Bronx, N.Y. 10468
888-493-6066
Medical allotting facility solely
BROOKLYN
Citiva Medical LLC: Be.
204-206 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217
212-257-3145
Medical allotting facility solely
Valley Agriceuticals, LLC: Sunnyside
178 North 4th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11211
929-299-5932
Medical allotting facility solely
Columbia Care NY LLC
44 Courtroom St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
212-271-0925
Medical allotting facility solely
MANHATTAN
Columbia Care NY LLC
212 East 14th St., New York, N.Y. 10003
646-453-7178
Medical allotting facility solely
Eatin, LLC
242 East 58th St., New York, N.Y. 10022
914-437-7898
Medical allotting facility solely
Fiorello Prescribed drugs, Inc.: FP Wellness/Rise
2E thirtieth St., New York, N.Y. 10016
212-689-8676
Medical allotting facility solely
MadMen, Inc.
433 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016
646-846-5551
Medical allotting facility solely
QUEENS
Curaleaf NY, LLC
107-18 seventieth Rd., Forest Hills, N.Y. 11375
646-968-2872
Medical allotting facility solely
NYCANNA, LLC: THE BOTANIST/ACREAGE NY
138-72 Queens Blvd., Jamaica, N.Y. 11435
917-810-4540
Medical allotting facility solely
Vireo Well being of New York LLC
89-55 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, N.Y. 11373
917-818-3110
Medical allotting facility solely
A full checklist of hashish allotting amenities all through New York state will be discovered right here.
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