[PRESS RELEASE] – SCHENECTADY, N.Y., March 6, 2025 – Cannabicity, a woman-founded adult-use hashish dispensary and the one hashish supply at Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady, N.Y., celebrated its grand opening for hashish retail gross sales on March 6 and introduced its latest undertaking: “Powered By way of Cannabicity.”
The grand opening was once attended via Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy, fellow native industry house owners and supporters. It marks the end result of greater than 5 years of partnership and making plans via the shop’s founder, Barbara Vaughn, along her circle of relatives and companions.
“It is glorious to in the end be totally reaching my imaginative and prescient: serving to people who want the comfort and rest equipped via hashish,” stated Vaughn, who used hashish merchandise in her personal ongoing fight with a unprecedented and debilitating neurological dysfunction—a tribulation which at first impressed Cannabicity. “I’m delighted to be formally authorized and open for hashish gross sales, and I’m additional happy to start out our ‘Powered By way of Cannabicity’ industry and extra toughen get right of entry to to those life-changing merchandise.”
The “Powered By way of Cannabicity” logo is a groundbreaking formal industry style for the Capital Area. It takes benefit of a provision in New York regulation permitting for retail hashish license holders to signal partnership agreements with controlled provider suppliers—permitting the companions to proportion funding, wisdom, operations and income from a hashish dispensary whilst the licensee keeps majority possession.
“Powered By way of Cannabicity” additionally introduced it has signed its first spouse licensee, Coastal Inexperienced. Authorized to a previously justice-impacted person underneath New York’s prior restrictive hashish rules, Coastal Inexperienced’s group secured a conditional adult-use retail dispensary (CAURD) license however was once not able to open and function a shop. In the course of the partnership, Coastal Inexperienced’s storefront on Delaware Road in Albany is now being renovated and is predicted to open via summer season 2025, “Powered By way of Cannabicity.”
Cannabicity’s grand opening party continues thru March 9 and comprises an opportunity for each and every buyer to earn as much as 50% off of purchases via spinning the shop’s “JackPOT Wheel” at checkout. “Tremendous Specials” and new prolonged retailer hours are additionally a part of the party.
