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As of April 2022, 52 recreational cannabis cultivation licenses have been granted and approved within New York State. [30] The first legal purchase of recreational cannabis was made in a dispensary operated by Housing Works in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on 29 December 2022. [31]
The lower Manhattan store is the first of 36 recently licensed dispensaries to open, with an additional 139 licenses yet to be issued by the state Office of Cannabis Management and 900 applicants ...
New York issued its first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses on Monday, taking a monumental step in establishing a legal — and lucrative — marketplace for recreational marijuana. The licenses ...
A customer browsing cannabis products at the Liberty Buds legal dispensary In Manhattan. Helayne Seidman. There are now 245 licensed retail weed outlets, up from 41 stores at the end of 2023.
Housing Works opened New York City and New York State's first legal recreational dispensary on December 29, 2022, with the proceeds funding Housing Works' larger mission combating homelessness and AIDS. [9] Commenters and lawmakers have questioned the propriety of a homelessness and anti-AIDS non-profit funding its activities through drug sales ...
Cannabis Station, a medical cannabis dispensary in Denver, Colorado Cannabis flower stored in jars at a dispensary in Colorado. Cannabis dispensaries in the United States or marijuana dispensaries are a type of cannabis retail outlet, local government-regulated physical location, typically inside a retail storefront or office building, in which a person can purchase cannabis and cannabis ...
Since 2012, various jurisdictions in the United States have legalized cannabis for recreational use. Because there are no border controls between U.S. states and citizens are allowed to travel freely between them, this has resulted in the proliferation of cannabis dispensaries located in towns that border states where cannabis remains illegal.
The city has been inundated with unlicensed cannabis dispensaries while legal shops have gotten off to a slow start. As NYC cracks down on illegal weed shops, 3,000 are going up in smoke.