With the opening of its first store, New York state meets its deadline to launch retail cannabis sales by the end of 2022
The first legal sale of cannabis in New York state took place Thursday at a brand-new retail pot dispensary run by the nonprofit Housing Works Cannabis Co., as the Empire State’s multibillion-dollar cannabis industry takes its first steps.
Chris Alexander, executive director of the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, stood behind the glass countertop at the store on Eighth Street and Broadway in New York City’s East Village and paid cash for a jar of cannabis flower and some gummies. The cannabis was grown at the farmer-owned and -operated Florist Farms in New York.
Housing Works Cannabis Co. now has the distinction of being the first legal cannabis dispensary in the state of New York, with public sales officially starting at 4:20 p.m., a time of day that has been a signal for the cannabis-savvy since its roots as a pot reference in 1970s Northern California. Chris King, CEO and co-founder of Housing Works, said the group has seen firsthand the “ravages of the war on drugs” on people who are homeless, HIV-positive people and people of color.
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