New Jersey’s first drive-thru cannabis dispensary officially opens for business

LODI, N.J. — New Jersey’s first drive-thru hashish dispensary formally opened for enterprise Saturday.

It has been lower than 4 months for the reason that legalization of leisure marijuana within the state, and 17 leisure dispensaries have opened store.

As CBS2’s Zinnia Maldonado studies, it is a new strategy to choose up hashish.

“It was very handy as a result of they’ve a drive-thru and that is their opening day,” one buyer stated.

After a smooth launch a couple of weeks in the past, the primary drive-thru pot dispensary in New Jersey is formally open for enterprise. It is situated on the Apothecarium on Route 17 in Lodi.

TerrAscend Company owns and operates the Apothecarium and two different dispensaries in New Jersey.  

“The drive-thru service is the very best,” one other buyer stated.

“It makes it actually fast and straightforward for them to select up their order in a short time,” stated Chantelle Elsner, senior vp of retail for TerrAscend. “After which on the opposite aspect, for sufferers that, you already know, might need mobility points or people who may desire to remain of their automotive, it provides them a secure choice.”

The drive-thru will solely be open for medical sufferers in the course of the first two hours of operation each day, from Sep 11 a.m.

“The state needed to make it possible for medical sufferers did not have to attend in line for too lengthy for his or her drugs,” stated Jason Wild, government chairman of TerrAscend.

Wild says it has been a optimistic expertise working by means of the launch of hashish gross sales with state officers.

“The tax {dollars} go to the state, they usually have a number of applications that they’ve arrange that would be the beneficiaries of the tax {dollars},” he stated.

Tax income from the gross sales of leisure hashish from April 21, when the market first opened, by means of the tip of June totaled greater than $4.5 million. That is primarily based off of almost $80 million in complete gross sales from licensed retailers throughout the state.

Wild predicts their three New Jersey places will rake in $40 million every inside their first 12 months.

“It has been a very long time coming,” Wild stated. “We’re right here for the lengthy haul.”