Probably the most recognizable hashish manufacturers on the earth is teaming up with the most important medical weed producer within the southern United States. Their vacation spot? Chenal, Arkansas. That would be the location of “Berner’s By Good Day Farm,” a brand new medical hashish dispensary from Good Day Farm and Cookies.
With greater than 4,000 sq. toes of retail house in Chenal, a suburb of the capital metropolis of Little Rock, the shop represents “Cookies’ entry into the Arkansas medical hashish market and can present the state’s sufferers with an expanded assortment of curated hashish merchandise and unique merchandise,” the businesses stated in an announcement on Tuesday.
The shop is slated to have its grand opening on Friday, which can embrace meals, giveaways, and an look by Cookies founder and CEO, Berner.
“I by no means imagined our first retailer within the South being in Arkansas; I truly by no means pictured opening a retailer within the South typically,” Berner stated within the announcement on Tuesday. “We’re extraordinarily enthusiastic about our partnership with Good Day Farm and sit up for offering actual menus and a curated buyer journey for these in Arkansas, particularly those that have by no means skilled hashish earlier than. The final time I used to be in Little Rock, I used to be on a tour with Snoop and we had a blast. I sit up for setting the tone with Good Day Farm and giving Arkansas a style of California.”
Solely two years after its founding, Good Day Farm payments itself as “the most important licensed medical hashish producer within the South, supplying the area with an plentiful choice of hashish merchandise in a various vary of codecs, together with premium flower, edibles, vapes, concentrates, syringes, tinctures and topical lotions.”
Cookies, in the meantime, was based greater than a decade in the past and has grown to be probably the greatest identified hashish corporations on the earth, with 1000’s of merchandise and retail areas in 4 completely different nations.
Each corporations view hashish as extra than simply enterprise. Good Day Farm says it “prides itself on being an envoy of this therapeutic plant within the South, the place each day the Firm is on a relentless quest to develop, nurture and share actually good hashish,” whereas Cookies has labored actively “to complement communities disproportionately impacted by the Struggle on Medication by means of advocacy and social fairness initiatives.”
The businesses stated that Berner’s By Good Day Farm “will carry merchandise from each Cookies and Good Day Farm, together with unique merchandise comparable to bespoke skateboards and attire designed with the spirit of Little Rock in thoughts.”
“As ambassadors of hashish within the South, it’s an honor to be the primary hashish firm to deliver the long-lasting Cookies model to Arkansas sufferers,” Laurie Gregory, the chief advertising officer at Good Day Farm, stated within the announcement. “Our new dispensary will supply the very best of each manufacturers, that includes 30+ new cultivars and all of the merchandise Good Day Farm’s prospects know and love, from honey, gummies, candies and vapes, to our newly launched reside resin assortment. This retailer is the primary of many deliberate collaborations between Good Day Farm and Cookies throughout the South, a companion who shares our dedication to serving to good individuals and offering good hashish.” Â
Arkansas voters authorised a measure legalizing medical hashish in 2016. Gross sales started three years later.
The state stated there have been $264.9 million price of medical hashish gross sales final yr, bringing the entire gross sales determine to greater than $500 million since dispensaries opened in 2019.
And there’s purpose to consider than Arkansans can be receptive to extra than simply medical hashish.
A ballot earlier this yr discovered that 53% of voters within the state consider that weed ought to be authorized for adults aged 21 and older.