Indeed, Robinson, like many regular customers of the traditional pot market, said he’d keep buying from his regular sources — possibly restraining the nascent industry’s growth.
Thirteen stores were supposed to open but only 12 did after Curaleaf’s Edgewater Park location was held up by a local zoning issue.As Andrew Sanford walked out of The Botanist in Williamstown, he raised a canister of his newly purchased marijuana and shouted out to the still-growing line of customers: “God’s green herb!”Dave Adams, 65, propped a milk crate in front of Cannabist in Deptford at 11 a.m. for the chance to snag some grass — what he likes to call marijuana — and go “street legal.
Finley and Gaeta said they are avid smokers and also thought the prices at The Botanist were “outrageous,” saying they have been able to acquire the same amount of marijuana flower for less than half the nearly $60 price tag. Dugary said he has been using cannabis for 20 years due to a “severe case of Crohn’s disease” that he has struggled with over the last two decades.At The Botanist in Williamstown, Richard Jester was so excited he queued up at 5:30 a.m. to be the first in line. Jester, who has spinal stenosis and uses a wheelchair, lives with chronic pain but was unable to obtain a medical marijuana card because it was too expensive.