Legal weed has been available in New York for less than two months, and much of the state’s new system is still getting off the ground. The Office of Cannabis Management has yet to issue licenses for stores that will sell and consume cannabis on site, and legal dispensaries have opened in just a few regions.

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But Thursday was a landmark day for one Queens store: Good Grades, on Jamaica Avenue near 162nd Street, became the first legal dispensary in Queens and the city’s first woman-owned business. The shop’s co-owners, Extasy James and Michael James Jr., are the cousins who received the first Queens Astoria Dispensary license issued under the state’s “equity in cannabis” program, which gives priority to those whose lives were disrupted by marijuana prohibition. Their customers on their opening day included Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, who bought gummies and a few pre-rolled joints.

While the cousins hope to provide high-quality cannabis products and a safe experience for customers, they also intend to give back to the community through education and partnering with local nonprofit groups to host giveaways and other events. The cousins also plan to give away free cannabis to any customer who brings a donation for a local charity.

To find a regulated, licensed dispensary near you, check the list on the OCM website and look for a blue and white sign with the Dispensary Verification Tool posted outside. You can also purchase legal weed online and have it delivered to your door from these dispensaries.

A small but mushroom dispensary Ottawa number of Canadians are trying to circumvent the law by buying psilocybin from storefronts. Despite federal drug laws banning the production, sale and possession of magic mushrooms (which contain psilocin), shops like Winnipeg’s Magic Mush and a few others in large city centres say they’re offering customers a safe and responsible way to access the hallucinogen. But they are also exposing themselves to a risky legal fight with police and could face charges for illegally selling the drug.

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Last week, police raided a Magic Mush outlet in a Winnipeg strip mall and seized packages of dried psilocybin mushrooms, gummies and chocolate bars made from the drug and almost $6,000 in cash. But the store opened again the next day. Winnipeg police Insp. Dave Hall says the service was initially planning a “softer approach” to the establishment but switched to an enforcement approach after the public comments of those associated with the shop who said they were providing a useful service and had no intention of shutting down.

Lawyer Eugene Oscapella, who teaches drug policy at the University of Ottawa, says that like marijuana stores in the first few years after pot was legalized, mushroom dispensaries are exploiting a grey area. He says police may have more pressing issues to focus on — such as fentanyl and heroin trafficking or alcohol-fueled street crime — and that going after these shops is a waste of resources.

The manager of the Magic Mush store on Richmond Road and two locations of Fun Guyz, which claim to be Canada’s first brick-and-mortar psilocybin stores, says police have pressured landlords and demanded they close. But he says there’s no evidence psychedelic mushrooms are creating problems in Ottawa, and that it’s “wasteful” for police to spend taxpayer dollars trying to get rid of them.

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