Almost two weeks after the state’s first leisure marijuana dispensary opened in New York Metropolis, one other one is coming.
This time it will likely be in Union Sq..
It is referred to as the “Union Square Travel Agency” and it’ll open up in an previous Chase Financial institution close to the Union Sq. subway station.
It’s set to have its mushy opening on Feb. thirteenth. Of the proceeds, 51 % will go to the Doe Fund, which gives housing, profession coaching and counseling to marginalized folks residing in NYC.
The primary authorized dispensary for leisure pot in New York opened Dec. 28 in Manhattan, 4,400-square foot nook constructing at Broadway and Astor Place, which was once a Hole retailer. It marked a long-awaited launch of a marijuana trade that would turn into one of many nation’s most profitable.
It wasn’t instantly clear what objects the Union Sq. store could be promoting. On the metropolis’s different dispensary, the Housing Works Hashish Firm, prospects can discover a vary of costs and merchandise, from $20 for an edibles container to a “flower” or plant — which you’ll roll right into a joint — for between $40-$95. Hashish vape kits will even promote for $95.
Leisure hashish gross sales began this morning at seven dispensaries. Lynda Baquero experiences.
Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced on Dec. 21 that Housing Works, a minority-controlled nonprofit in Manhattan that serves folks with HIV and AIDS, could be the primary of 36 lately licensed dispensaries to start promoting hashish to most of the people — regardless that dozens of unlawful retailers have been in operation for a lot of months.
Within the coming months, the state is anticipated to problem a further 139 licenses, with about 900 candidates ready to be taught their destiny. The state reserved its first spherical of retail licenses for candidates with marijuana convictions or their family, plus some nonprofit teams. It additionally deliberate a $200 million public-private fund to help “social equity” candidates.
New York legalized the leisure use of marijuana in March 2021.