A Syracuse cannabis company will open a dispensary in Auburn in the coming weeks.
FlynnStoned Cannabis Co. is on track to open inside the former Family Video at 48 E. Genesee St. sometime in March, owner Mike Flynn told 水果派AV on Wednesday.
The dispensary's buildout is just about done, Flynn said, leaving its inspection by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management as one of the last items needed for it to open.
The Auburn dispensary will be FlynnStoned's third, following locations in Syracuse and Oswego. Like them it will carry cannabis flower, edibles, vapes, prerolls, tinctures, topicals and drinks.
Flynn called the former Family Video, which closed in 2020, "a perfect retail setting." The dispensary will employ 15 to 20 people.
The Auburn dispensary is part of Flynn's plan to open locations across New York state, he said.
"Auburn is a pretty busy little town," he said. "I've had my eyes on it this whole time."聽
Flynn opened the Syracuse location in 2023. According to it $30 million in gross sales its first year, about four times what he expected.
FlynnStoned will be Auburn's second licensed dispensary to open since the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act made recreational cannabis legal in New York state in 2021.
The first licensed dispensary in the city, Wild Flower, opened in January in the Nolan Block at 18 Genesee St.
When Washington state opened some of the nation鈥檚 first legal marijuana stores, Sam Ward Jr. was on home detention after being indicted on federal drug charges for dealing pot.
A decade later, Ward was granted a legal license from the state to open Cloud 9 Cannabis.
