Brooklyn To Get Its Second Medical Marijuana Outpost: Report

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Park Slope won't be the borough's only neighborhood getting in on the medical marijuana business. A new medical weed dispensary is set to open in Brooklyn Heights, run by the company that opened the first dispensary in the city two years ago, The Real Deal reports.

Columbia Care, which runs three other dispensaries in the state, signed the lease for a 7,000-square-foot ground floor spot at 44 Court Street. Just like the borough's first medical marijuana — which opened late last year on Flatbush Avenue — the new spot will offer in-person consultations and a home delivery service, this time to the Brooklyn Heights area.

“As the medical cannabis industry has evolved, more and more communities have welcomed companies like Columbia Care that provide a vital service to patients,” one of the company's representatives told The Real Deal. “The Court Street space represents a first-of-its-kind facility in this neighborhood.”

The company's first outpost in the city is a East 14th Street spot in the East Village.

Columbia Care is licensed to operate in 12 U.S. states and was the first American medical marijuana company to be licensed in Europe. They were founded by a pair of former Goldman Sachs executives, the story reports.

The company was one of the first that became licensed to operate in New York state back in 2015.

Brooklyn's first medical marijuana dispensary, owned by Citiva, was among another group that became licensed a few years later.

That outpost opened on Dec. 30 just across from the Barclays Center and Atlantic Terminal in a 2,000-square-foot space. It offers more than 30 locally-sourced and lab-tested products to the borough's residents with a medical marijuana card valid in New York state.

Citiva and Columbia Care might not be alone for long, though. State records show that another outpost run by Valley Agriceuticals is "coming soon" to Kings County, though it doesn't list where exactly the location will be just yet.

Citiva was the fourth dispensary to open city-wide and Columbia Care will be the fifth.

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