The marijuana industry continues to grow across the country— and since New York legalized the sale and consumption of cannabis in 2021 for adults, hundreds of legal dispensaries have opened across the Empire State.
The arrival of the village of Haverstraw’s first legal dispensary, 202 Cannabis Co., in early May, brings Westchester and Rockland’s number of legal pot shops up to 19.
Read on to learn more about the Lower Hudson Valley’s marijuana shops, and where to find them.
What to know about program that allows for legal marijuana shops in NY
The first licenses were given to 32 dispensaries in 2022 through the Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary program, which granted priority licenses to business owners directly impacted by prior marijuana convictions, or nonprofits with a history of helping incarcerated people.
However, the CAURD program met some push back in August 2023, when a state judge blocked new licenses from being granted after a group of service-disabled veterans claimed that state regulators “unconstitutionally awarded initial dispensary licenses to businesses impacted by prior marijuana convictions.”
This ruling paused licenses from being granted and dispensaries from being open until October 2023.
See map of cannabis dispensaries in Lower Hudson Valley
See our map below to find where dispensaries are located in Westchester and Rockland counties.
Where to find legal marijuana in Lower Hudson Valley
The following is a list of all the legal and licensed dispensaries currently open in the Lower Hudson Valley:
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Etain: 75 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains
Contributing: USA TODAY Network New York state team writer David Robinson
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Where are marijuana dispensaries in Westchester, Rockland NY? See map
