The New American Dispensary Is Becoming More Than a Store
Today’s leading dispensaries are moving beyond the sales counter to become community spaces, educational hubs, and cultural destinations. Missouri’s SWADE Cannabis offers a working example. For most of the legal era, the dispensary has been built around a single moment: the sale. A customer walked in knowing roughly what they wanted, talked to a budtender, […]
Finally: One of America’s Biggest Cannabis Dispensary Chains Now Operates in Spanish
Forty-five million people in the U.S. speak Spanish as their dominant language. The cannabis industry has existed legally for over a decade. And it took until 2026 for one of the country’s largest dispensary chains to build a full Spanish-language experience for them. Curaleaf finally did it. Took a minute. The program rolled out this […]
California Bill To Legalize Marijuana Dispensary Drive-Thru Windows Advances In Senate After Clearing Full Assembly
A California Senate committee has approved and Assembly-passed bill that would allow marijuana retailers to offer drive-thru windows to serve customers. The measure, which cleared the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee in a 7-3 vote on Monday, says that licensed cannabis retailers and microbusinesses with storefronts could sell marijuana products “to a customer in […]
Mobb Deep’s Havoc Is Opening A Dispensary In Queens. The Alchemist, Funk Flex And Kid Capri Are Coming Through.
The Mobb Deep co-founder and Queensbridge native opens The Bridge in Astoria this weekend, with The Alchemist, Funk Flex and Kid Capri on the bill. He calls it ownership, not an endorsement. Havoc has repped Queens for more than three decades. This weekend, he plants a flag in it. The Mobb Deep co-founder and Queensbridge […]
Amber Senter, Architect of Oakland’s Cannabis Equity Program, Says Founders Should Skip the Dispensary
Amber Senter co-founded Supernova Women, the organization that helped shape America’s first cannabis social equity program. A decade later, she says the licenses meant to repair the War on Drugs sent Black founders into the industry’s most expensive, lowest-margin, hardest-to-survive corner. “You need $2 million to open a dispensary. If you have $50,000, you can […]
The Launch Of Alabama Medical Marijuana Sales Is Just ‘Days Away,’ With First Dispensary Preparing To Open Its Doors
“This is a healthcare program. This is for the health of our patients in Alabama, and it says we are not a recreational program.” By Anna Barrett, Alabama Reflector Patients in Alabama with qualifying medical conditions are “days away” from being able to purchase medical cannabis with a physician’s recommendation, according to Vince Schilleci, owner […]