Long Island To Add 4 More Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

New York will get five additional registered organizations that manufacture and sell medical marijuana, including four that will dispense on Long Island, state officials announced Tuesday.

Two dispensaries will come to Nassau and the other two will come to Suffolk. None of these facilities on Long Island will manufacture marijuana.

"The New York State Department of Health is committed to growing the state's Medical Marijuana Program responsibly," New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said in a press release.

These four dispensaries will join the two already open on Long Island:

• Columbia Care NY LLC, located at 1333 E. Main St. in Riverhead
• Bloomfield Industries, located at 2001 Marcus Ave. in Lake Success

Zucker says the addition of these registered organization will benefit patients across the state by:

• Making it easier to obtain medical marijuana
• Making new medical marijuana products more affordable due to increased competition
• Bringing in more variety of medical marijuana products available to patients

The registered organizations coming to Long Island are:

• Fiorello Pharmaceuticals— to dispense in Nassau. The business will also manufacture in Schenectady County and dispense in Monroe, Saratoga, New York Counties.
• New York Canna (d/b/a Terradiol New York)— to dispense in Suffolk. The business will also manufacture in Onondaga County and dispense in Erie, Orange, Queens Counties.
• PalliaTech NY— to dispense in Nassau. The business will also manufacture in Ulster County and dispense in Orange, Queens, and Clinton Counties.
• Valley Agriceuticals— to dispense in Suffolk. The business will alsol manufacture in Orange County and dispense in Kings, Oneida and Dutchess Counties.

The fifth registered organization coming to New York is Citiva Medical, which will manufacture in Orange County and dispense in Dutchess, Chemung, Kings and Richmond Counties.

These new organizations join five registered organizations that have been operating since the program’s launch in January 2016. The original registered organizations have also been re-registered for another two years, the DOH says.

There are 25,736 certified patients and 1,139 registered practitioners participating in the program in New York State as of Tuesday, according to the DOH.

The number of certified patients has increased by 72 percent since chronic pain was added on as a qualifying condition in late March. Other additions to the state’s medical marijuana program include home delivery, empowering nurse practitioners and physician assistants to certify patients and releasing a list of registered practitioners.

Find a medical marijuana practitioner who consented to be publicly on the list here. The list does not include all of the practitioners who can certify patients for medical marijuana.

Learn more about the New York State Medical Marijuana Program here.

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