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When it comes to marijuana sales, is it fair to say that Idahoans have no knowledge on the subject?

Or do they?

As more dispensaries open up in Ontario, Oregon– a city of only 11,000 residents, we begin to wonder who is purchasing so much marijuana in Ontario? Ask any business owners and they will all tell you the same thing: a whole lot of Idahoans. How can they tell? The license plates are a dead giveaway, according to some.

According to a popular national marijuana platform, the TOP dispensary in the entire State of Oregon is…in Ontario. There are plenty of options out there:

Dispensaries You Can Find in Ontario, Oregon

The State of Oregon has legalized marijuana for some time now. Dispensaries continue to pop up across the state although the “joke” or “reality”, whichever you want to embrace, really points to the fact that Ontario seems to serve a lot of Idahoans.

Here are just some of the places you can legally purchase marijuana in Ontario.

Gallery Credit: Credit: Mateo, 103.5 KISS FM

But really, which of these is the BEST in Oregon? 

According to a study on the matter, there are over 660 marijuana dispensaries in the ENTIRE State of Oregon. In Ontario, however,

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GODFREY – The Village Dispensary at 110 Northport in Godfrey, is open for business as of Friday, April 19, 2024, one of the owners, Eddie Sholar Jr., said, and they are excited to greet customers.

Sholar said the business is right on the line of Alton and Godfrey and has an Alton mailing address, but is considered a Godfrey location. The business will begin with operating hours of 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday, and Sholar said those times may be adjusted at some point, depending on the feedback of customers.

Eddie said he and his employees at the new location couldn’t be more excited to have the new marijuana dispensary open for those in the region.

“We will have a very extensive inventory,” he said. “I am very proud of all our employees who have been training and they have things figured out for customers. They are also so excited to have it open.”

Eddie Sholar Jr. is the long-time owner of the iconic Fast Eddie’s Bon-Air on Broadway, known literally worldwide by its visitors. He said many of the lessons he has learned in the years as the Fast Eddie’s owner will be put into place in his new Godfrey

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SAINT PAUL — Retail sales for Minnesota’s legal recreational cannabis market are tracked for early next year. But some activists who sought to change the law and others who want to cash in on cannabis worry that there won’t be enough supply to meet high demand unless state regulators allow for early cultivation.

The process— from establishing a growing facility, to planting seeds and then finally to store shelves for sale— can take up to a year, said Jason Tarasek, an attorney specializing in cannabis at Vicente LLP. Right now, businesses would need to get a state license in order to get off the ground and the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management is in the midst of setting rules for implementation, which could take awhile.

The fear from prospective business owners is that waiting until that process is complete will add further delays to the market launching. 

“I’ve had concerns that we’re going to be a bit behind,” Tarasek said. “So if we wait until rulemaking is finished to get plants in the ground, that’s probably going to be first quarter second quarter 2025. Then we’re looking at a market launch in 2026, potentially.”

Rep. Nolan West, R-Blaine, tried to amend a bill Thursday night that makes

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SPARC, a chain of retail cannabis shops, announced the launch of its newest space off Soscol Avenue — which will make it Napa’s ninth dispensary when it officially opens its doors Saturday.

The decision to open on April 20 — 4/20 — was intended to latch onto “the ultimate cannabis holiday,” the company said in a news release, announcing a series of sales on opening day and throughout the month.

According to its website, SPARC opened its first store in 2010 as the San Francisco Patient and Resource Center, providing medical marijuana prior to adult-use legalization in California in 2016. The company has five additional locations in Sonoma County and San Francisco.

“We’re thrilled to bring SPARC’s elevated retail experience to Napa Valley,” Erich Pearson, the company’s CEO and founder, said in a statement. “Our goal is to create a space where customers can explore and discover cannabis products in a relaxed and comfortable setting …”

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Napa is the only municipality in the county with pot dispensaries. It is the third to open since city officials agreed to permit retail — as opposed to medicinal — sales in April 2022.

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April 20, also known as 4/20, is set to be celebrated for the first time in the North Country on Saturday by two recreational marijuana dispensaries — Elevate ADK in Saranac Lake and The Grass Hole Cannabis in Plattsburgh. General Manager Eli Emery of Elevate ADK and Manager Madison Worley of The Grass Hole Cannabis are gearing up for their inaugural 4/20 celebrations since both shops opened.”We’re really excited to celebrate the first 4/20 here in Clinton County. It’s really big for the county,” Worley said.Emery, expressing gratitude for the progress made in the cannabis market: “We’re now really grateful that the state’s at least gotten us this far and that we are in a somewhat functioning market, that we’re able to bring product to customers and that we’re able to operate.”Both dispensaries have exciting plans for the day. Elevate ADK will offer food, drinks, door prizes, and deals on merchandise, while The Grass Hole Cannabis will host a food truck and provide educational sessions on safe cannabis consumption. Leading up to 4/20, both stores have seen an increase in sales.Recreational marijuana became legal in New York State three years ago, with Elevate opening its doors in October and Grass

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NILES, Mich. — Tomorrow is April 20. That date may mean nothing to you, but it’s a taboo holiday dating back to the 1970s, a kind of homage to the “best time to smoke marijuana”.

While Michigan entered its fifth year of legal pot, marijuana dispensaries are not the only ones getting some green on this unofficial holiday.

4/20 has sparked a new age of marketing munchies, even here in Michiana.

Pot dispensaries in Michigan see sales getting higher, with many customers coming from out-of-state.

Since Michigan first legalized marijuana use in December 2018, pot sales continue to increase, as explained by Katie Lynch Lindgren, Brand Manager for Green Stem Dispensary in Niles.

“For the last four years, what we have seen is each 4/20 growing. It was a cultural holiday within the cannabis industry for a long time, something that was celebrated like a holiday. With recreation and stores starting to open, it became more of a Black Friday, if you will, of retail, but for weed.”

Partakers in the 4/20 holiday are coming to Michigan from numerous nearby states that have not legalized recreational marijuana, including Indiana, Wisconsin, and Kentucky.

According to Andrea Kelly, a Floor Manager at ReLeaf,

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In cannabis culture, 420 — April 20 — is a day to celebrate.

But for many in California’s legal cannabis industry, there’s little cause for revelry most days, according to experts who say high taxes, burdensome regulations and illegal sales are crushing entrepreneurs’ dreams.

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“I get calls every week from mom-and-pop operators that were excited about legal cannabis, that invested their life savings into doing something they were passionate about and doing it legally,” said Jason Piazza, director of real estate for WeCann, a Santa Ana cannabis business consulting firm.

Slang for cannabis smoking, especially at 4:20 p.m., 420’s origin is the subject of several theories. It’s a day when cannabis users gather and smoke the drug, often in public places.

• Cannabis plants are on sale at The Artist Tree, a licensed cannabis dispensary, in the Highgrove area of Riverside County on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

• Cannabis buds are for sale at The Artist Tree, a licensed cannabis dispensary in the Highgrove area of Riverside County on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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Hii NYC, located at 152 Bedford Ave., is owned by Brooklynite Peter Beznos, and opened on Friday — just in time for 4/20.

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Williamsburg’s first legal recreational weed dispensary opened its doors to customers on Friday, the eighth licensed store now open in Kings County — and just in time for 4/20.

Hii NYC, located at 152 Bedford Ave., is owned by Brooklynite Peter Beznos who said at the April 19 grand opening that his main hope for the store is to be able to educate the local community on safe and legal weed use, aiming to be a “safe haven” among the myriad of illegal vendors across the neighborhood and city.

“This is a state sanctioned dispensary and all of these are licensed providers, everything is grown and processed here in New York state,” said Beznos. “If it’s not legal, you just don’t know what you’re getting. Everything at our store is pre-packaged by the company, you have the company’s phone number on the back, you have somebody who’s actually answering for the product.”

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Zaza Green Cannabis, a destination for cannabis products, is set to host a special event featuring author and former international cannabis smuggler Tim McBride.

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Zaza Green, located at 311 Page Blvd in Springfield, is running the event during their 420 celebration weekend on April 19th and April 20th.

Supported by Glorious Cannabis and their ‘Smoke Weed Instead’ program, along with Garden Remedies, Happy Valley, and Green Gold, the event will feature Timothy McBride, the former cannabis smuggler known for his book “Saltwater Cowboys: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire.”

McBride, considered one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history, will be accompanied by Springfield podcast legend, Christopher DiMauro, to record two live podcast episodes at Zaza Green Cannabis Dispensary. The first podcast was recorded from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, and the second live episode is being recorded from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Photo courtesy of Zaza Green Cannabis

In addition to the podcast recordings, Zaza Green Cannabis will host a meet and greet and book signing with McBride, featuring a question-and-answer

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New Pot Shop in Boston, Massachusetts

There’s a new pot shop in Boston’s South End called “Rebelle.”  The owner, Charlotte Hanna, wants to focus on making people feel healthy and well, rather than getting them high like traditional pot is known for (although she’s not opposed to that, either).

I got a chance to talk to Charlotte about the shop, and how it’s been described as “an alternative flower shop.”  Charlotte said that’s probably because the neighborhood that the place is in used to be the city’s Flower district.  The whole area has been developed into a big bio-tech campus, with other shops included.  The warehouse where the dispensary is located is the same area as the last standing flower wholesaler in the neighborhood.  You can’t go into Rebelle and buy a dozen roses. However, Charlotte said she is selling a different kind of flower.

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Customers were coming in saying that the edibles they were taking made them feel sleepy.  Charlotte was telling me about an edible she’s developed with green tea, that won’t put you to sleep.  There’s another product that she has called THCV, which she’s super excited to bring to market as well.

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