You Can Get Everything Delivered in NYC — Even Legal Weed
The plan will help licensed retailers start pot sales soon, with safety measures including prepaid transactions and GPS.
Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg
New York’s first legal sales of marijuana will be delivered by bikes and scooters, in a creative pivot to get the state’s recreational-pot program up and running even without retail stores.
“We’re turbocharging delivery because we have a big crop coming,” said Axel Bernabe, chief of staff of New York’s Office of Cannabis Management, which oversees regulation of the new recreational cannabis market in the state. Bernabe, revealing the delivery plans in a phone interview, said that the dozens of people who have already received licenses to open retail shops will also be able to deliver by bicycle, scooter and other vehicles.