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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 NYC's First Medicinal Marijuana Dispensary Opening in January 🌿NYC's First Medicinal Marijuana Dispensary Opening in January
New York City is joining the places around the country that is allowed to provide medicinal marijuana to those who have a prescription.
The city’s first marijuana dispensary will be opening in January 2016, near Manhattan’s Union Square.
The dispensary will be located on 14th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. It will be operated by Columbia Care, one of only five NYC companies that were awarded licenses to open a marijuana shop. The companies were chosen from among 43 competing companies from all over the nation. The licenses give companies the rights to open a New York State-based manufacturing facility, as well as up to four dispensaries.
The other four companies who received licenses were Bloomfield Industries, Empire State Health Solutions, Etain, and Pharmacannis.
Columbia Care CEO Nicholas Vita is hoping to keep things as professional as possible, and are not looking at recreational options.
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