Brooklyn is going up in smoke!
The borough’s second medical-marijuana dispensary is coming to Court Street, inside the former home of a beloved office-supply shop that shuttered last year.
The owners of cannabis company Columbia Care NY last month inked a deal to take over the former Court Street Office Supply store on the border of America’s Downtown and Brooklyn Heights, where eligible patients can soon purchase the dispensary’s weed-infused tinctures, oils, and pills, according to the realtor who helped the firm secure the site.
“As the medical-cannabis industry has evolved, more and more communities have welcomed companies like Columbia Care, which provide a vital service to patients,” said Hector Rodriguez, a broker with Savitt Partners. “The Court Street space represents a first-of-its-kind facility in this neighborhood.”
Patients seeking herbal remedies from the new Brooklyn Heights facility must possess a state-issued medical-marijuana card, and won’t find Mary Jane in its natural plant form, or infused in any edibles, both of which the dispensary is prohibited from selling under the medical-marijuana program state legislators enacted in 2014.
But Columbia Care does offer home delivery of its remedies to patients unable to pick them up in-store, and employs an on-site pharmacist for consultation and other services.
The Court Street facility will be the second medical dispensary to open in Kings County, after the first opened on Flatbush Avenue near the Park Slope–Prospect Heights border in December.
Columbia Care, whose two-level borough shop between Remsen and Joralemon streets should open this spring, according to a rep, also operates similar facilities in Manhattan and across the state.
News of the dispensary’s arrival comes weeks after Gov. Cuomo announced a scheme to legalize recreational marijuana use statewide as part of his 2020 Executive Budget, which could bring legal weed to local streets as soon as the 2024–25 fiscal year if the proposal makes it into the final budget the governor must approve on by April 1.
