STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — This year, the borough welcomed several physical cannabis stores, and in 2025, more will follow.
Staten Islanders who loved Mary Jane were welcomed into Be., High Stone, NugHub, The Flowery, The Weed Shoppe, and ZenZest. Every store has its own unique style, with custom selections ranging from joints to buds to other specialist things.
In addition, the majority of them deliver.
Two more establishments, Cloutitude Dispensary and Gaslight Dispensary, are scheduled to open on the island in the near future, bringing the total to eight. The statistics page of the New York State government indicates that there are ten additional licenses that are either active or pending on Staten Island.
Check out all that s here and all that s coming below:
Be.
Be. can be found at 338 New Dorp Ln. (Alexandra Salmieri/Staten Island Advance).Salmieri, Alexandra
Located at 338 New Dorp Ln., Be. is a RO medicinal business that appears on Google as Be. Staten Island medicinal Cannabis Dispensary.
Be. is open from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. On Sundays, the store is not open.
Elevated Stone
On February 2, 2024, High Stone, an adult-use marijuana corporation situated in Staten Island, began offering delivery services. (Erik Bascome/Staten Island Advance)Erik Bascome, Advance of Staten Island
The first cannabis shop on Staten Island to stock Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man’s TICAL brand, which comes with two pre-rolls and a flower, is High Stone.
According to Matt Guido, manager of High Stone Logistics, it is also a fast delivery service for people on Staten Island who seek cannabis items. They provide a variety of pre-rolled joints, vape pens, vape cartridges, concentrates, edibles, and smoking accessories, and their delivery service began on February 2, 2024.
Their website allows customers to purchase orders.All orders placed before 6:30 p.m. are expected to be delivered the same day, and deliveries are available seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Located at 1938 Clove Rd. in Concord, the physical site is almost finished and is expected to open in April.
The NugHub
NugHub co-founder Michael (Mo) Gertelman behind the wheel of specially modified dispensary delivery vehicle. Staten Island Advance/Tom Wrobleski The Staten Island Advance/Tom WrobleskiThe Staten Island Advance/Tom Wrobleski
Currently operating out of a warehouse on the Island while construction is underway on a storefront at 1350 Forest Ave. in Port Richmond, NugHub launched its delivery service in January. In addition to standard cannabis products like pre-rolled joints and flowers, according to earlier Advance/SiLive.com reporting, NugHub sells THC-containing sparkling waters, coffees, tea sachets, cider, and lemonade, as well as marijuana gummies, chocolates, honeys, pills, infused flower concentrates, oils, massage and lip balms, and more.
Co-founder Michael Gertelman confirmed that the NugHub physical storefront will open to the public in the next few weeks.
NugHub currently has three delivery vehicles on the road and makes deliveries from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. While they began their delivery journey on Staten Island and in Brooklyn,per the NugHub website, they will now deliver to locations in Manhattan, Queens and Nassau County as well.
They opened their doors to Staten Islanders in October.
The Flowery
Owners Mohamad Elgaly (left) and Shlomo Weinstock (right) pose at the front of The Flowery in Charleston, Staten Island’s first adult-use marijuana dispensary, ahead of its opening later this month. Friday, Jan. 6, 2024. (Staten Island Advance/Jason Paderon) Jason PaderonJason Paderon
Thefirst adult-use marijuana dispensaryto open on Staten Island has been up and running since Jan. 17, 2024, and is currently working on establishing a delivery service,according to previous Advance / SiLive.com reporting.With the help of budtenders, customers select their desired products on an iPad after being ID d by security. Once an order is placed,The Flowerypersonnel will collect your purchases from a secure storage room and send you on your way. Products include things like marijuana flower, pre-rolled joints, concentrates and edibles, so there isa variety of things to choose from.
The Flowery is located at 3022 Veterans Rd. West and is open Monday through Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday through Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and on Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Weed Shoppe
The Weed Shoppe which opens April 20, 2024, in Tottenville. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel
The second brick-and-mortar legal recreational dispensary opened its doors to customers on Weed Day this yearApril 20at 4906 Arthur Kill Rd.
Owner and accountant Lenny Manning said the Weed Shoppe offers a broad array of THC and Hemp products, including a line especially for women.
We have picked award winning products. We re keeping it to very, very good stuff, he said.
ZenZest
Here’s a look at one of Staten Island’s newest weed dispensaries, ZenZest. (Courtesy of Rinkesh Shethiya)Courtesy of Rinkesh Shethiya
Located in the Roman Plaza shopping center in Mariners Harbor, ZenZest will cater to any and every weed product a customer might want to purchase, according to owner Rinkesh Shethiya.
Legally vetted flowers, topicals, edibles, concentrates, vapes and even some accessories will be available in the new store, which Shethiya described as a safer alternative to the black market weed businesses permeating the city.
We don t want any customer to go back saying, Oh, we didn t find what we wanted in the store. That s the goal, he explained.
They opened their doors to customers back in October.
Weed Shops to Come
Cloutitude Dispensary
A retail cannabis dispensary will soon open its doors in Great Kills, replacing South Side Hardware a storied neighborhood hardware store that served Staten Islanders for a century before shuttering last fall. (Staten Island Advance/Jessica Jones-Gorman)Staten Island Advance/Jessica Jones-Gorman
Cloutitude Dispensarywill soon open its doors in Great Kills, replacing South Side Hardware a storied neighborhood hardware shop that served Staten Islanders for a century before shuttering last fall.
New York Legal Licensed Cannabis Dispensary Coming Soon, notes a sign now displayed in front of 4034 Hylan Blvd., which has beencompletely renovated over the past seven months, its aisles of tools and home essentials gutted, and the former simple brick exterior refurbished with modern stone and tinted glass.
Not much information is available about Clouditude Dispensary – the name that now appears in bold letters above the shop s entrance. Awebsitehas been created, but the homepage only offers a Launching Soon banner.
Gaslight Dispensary
Prior Advance/SiLive.com reportingrevealed that two West Brighton stores, S&T Bagels and The Card & Gift Shop, are being moved out of their retail spaces so the state-approved Gaslight Dispensary can move in. The present businesses, which can be found at 463 and 465 Forest Ave., will have until March 31, 2024, to relocate. According to a spokesperson from New York State s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), the location was recently proven to be compliant by the state.
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