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The Botanist located in Briarwood intends to raise the bar for cannabis retail store design, customer service, patient care and community engageLIC
New medical marijuana dispensary opens in Briarwood
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
A new medical cannabis dispensary
offi cially opened its doors in Briarwood
on Wednesday.
Th e Botanist, located at 138-72 Queens
Blvd., is Acreage Holdings Inc.’s — the
United States’ largest vertically integrated,
multi-state cannabis operator
— fi rst metro-New York City location
opened on Feb. 20. Th e Botanist intends
to raise the bar for cannabis retail store
design, customer service, patient care
and community engagement.
“A lot of what we do here is educate
patients about cannabis and the benefi
ts of cannabis, and that’s why Th e
Botanist is going to be unique from the
other dispensaries because we have a
strong educational component,” said
Dennis Duval, chief operating offi cer of
Acreage NY. “Our mission to provide
safe, predictable and aff ordable cannabis
products.”
Th e Botanist Queens is Acreage’s third
New York State-licensed medical cannabis
dispensary to open. Th e Botanist
Buff alo debuted in November 2018 followed
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by Th e Botanist Middletown in
January. An additional New York location
is expected to open in Farmingdale,
Long Island, in March. Th e Botanist
dispensaries have also been opened
in Baltimore, MD, Worcester, MA,
Canton, OH, and Wickliff e, OH.
Acreage expects Th e Botanist to become
a household retail brand from coast to
coast.
In Queens, Th e Botanist presents a
unique experiential design, blending
nature and science in an immersive
and inviting retail environment. Th e
interior, designed by award-winning
architecture and interior design fi rm
McKinley Burkart, truly refl ects what
the future of cannabis retail looks like.
Th e dispensary brings customers registered
as patients or caregivers closer
to the plant and its healing properties,
with design elements including a
lush botanical wall, an educational station
and more.
Off ering a sensory experience from
the moment a customer enters the dispensary,
visitors are immersed in an
environment reminiscent of visiting a
19th century greenhouse laboratory,
off ering a welcoming place for consumers
to engage in all things cannabis.
Th e Botanist will sell a selection of the
best cannabis products available across
every category that New York State regulations
allow, including vape cartridges,
tinctures, capsules and more. A family
of proprietary, Th e Botanist cannabis
products are currently in development
and will soon debut at the store.
To help celebrate the opening of Th e
Botanist in Queens and in keeping with
the store’s mission to enable access to
cannabis for every registered patient or
caregiver who needs it or wants it, all veterans
who purchase product or merchandise
at Th e Botanist will receive a 10 percent
discount through the end of March.
Th e Botanist in Queens hours of operation
will be Monday to Friday from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. In order to purchase
products at Th e Botanist, New York
State citizens must fi rst be registered
as a New York State medical cannabis
patient or caregiver.
For more information on Th e Botanist
in Queens, visit www.shopbotanist.com.
Follow along on Instagram @iamthebotanist.
For more information about
the New York State medical marijuana
program, visit www.health.ny.gov.
man turns ment.
himself in for
allegedly raping
woman in Woodside
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
edavenport@qns.com
@QNS
A Long Island City man surrendered
to police on Monday for allegedly raping
a woman on a Woodside street last week.
Matthew Luna, 27, turned himself in to
authorities at the 108th Precinct at 8:50
p.m. on Feb. 18. He was charged with
rape, stalking, assault and committing a
criminal sex act.
According to authorities, at 10:40 p.m.
on Feb. 15, Luna allegedly followed a
20-year-old woman off a bus and engaged
her in conversation in the vicinity of 54th
Street and Skillman Avenue. Luna then
allegedly pushed the woman against a car
and raped her.
EMS responded to the scene and transported
the victim to a local hospital, where
she was treated and released.
On the day Luna turned himself in,
police released additional video of the suspect
on the Q32 bus.
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