Beyond/Hello said Wednesday it has received approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Health to open the first medical marijuana dispensary in Center City Philadelphia.
The company expects the dispensary, at 1206 Sansom St., to open for business this fall.
“We look forward to serving patients in Center City and beyond,” said Blythe Huestis, president of Beyond/Hello. “We are here as a trusted resource for the community. Whether patients have questions about medical cannabis, how medical cannabis works with the body, or a product — we will be here to help meet their needs.”
Beyond/Hello expects to open a Bucks County dispensary in Bristol next month. The company’s majority investor is Denver-based Franklin BioScience. Franklin BioScience in February formed a partnership with the Rothman Institute, the Philadelphia region’s largest orthopedic medical group, to study the use of medical marijuana to treat pain.
The Beyond/Hello Center City dispensary on Sansom Street will carry a wide array of medical cannabis products, including concentrates, cannabis-infused oils, pills, capsules, tinctures, topicals, and a host of other ancillary products such as cartridges and vaporizer pens. Beyond/Hello will also have a pharmacist on site.
“Legalizing cannabis is the right thing to do for our city and the commonwealth,” said Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, in a statement. “The opening of medical cannabis dispensaries in Philadelphia will make critical treatments more accessible to patients in need. The program is also creating attractive jobs and the resulting tax revenue will fund important programs that improve our city and commonwealth.”
The first Philadelphia medical marijuana dispensary is slated to be opened by Restore Integrative Medicine in the Fishtown section of the city next month.
Three dispensaries have opened in the Philadelphia suburbs — in Devon, Sellersville and Phoenixville — with a fourth, TerraVida Holistic Centers Abington dispensary at 1626 Old York Road, set to open April 26. In addition, Illera Healthcare’s Plymouth Meeting site is scheduled to begin filling prescriptions next week.
Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law, approved in 2016, allows for the state residents to be treated with medical marijuana if they are under a practitioner’s care for 17 serious medical conditions, including ALS, autism, cancer, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and post-traumatic stress disorder. The health department has awarded permits to 12 grower/processors and granted dispensary permits to 27 organizations — each are allowed to open three dispensaries in their region.
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