NY medical marijuana company to roll out home delivery service

Home delivery of medical marijuana is coming to the five boroughs.

Vireo Health, one of the five licensed pot growers in New York, plans to begin home delivery service in the city, Long Island and Westchester County within three months, the company announced Wednesday.

“New Yorkers have increasingly come to expect home delivery, and we plan on leveraging ‘last mile’ supply chain technologies to meet and exceed patient expectations,” said Vireo Chief Executive Officer Ari Hoffnung.

State health officials first announced plans to allow home cannabis consignment in August as part of a gradual expansion of the tightly regulated program, which launched in January 2016.

Vireo, which also operates dispensaries in Queens and White Plains, Westchester County, is the first of the growers to receive approval for home distribution.

“This is another step in the department’s implementation of the recommendations in the two-year report on New York’s medical marijuana program,...

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