Medical marijuana patients in the Euclid area will no longer have to travel out of town to reach a dispensary. Nectar Medical Cannabis Dispensary, the first business of its kind to open within Euclid’s borders, obtained its Dispensary Certificate of Operation from the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy on April 18^th. This was a year and a half from the date Euclid City Council approved amending the city’s Zoning Code to expand where dispensaries can be located, and six years after Euclid City Council passed legislation that permitted medical marijuana cultivation and dispensaries in limited areas of the city.

The dispensary is scheduled to open on April 24^th at 21100 Saint Clair Avenue in Euclid.

“I processed 61 zoning review applications for entities wanting to locate in the city,” said City of Euclid Zoning Commissioner Scott Muscatello. “There were 16 locations. The state was prepared to add seven new licenses to Cuyahoga County and ended up awarding two provisional licenses to Euclid.”

One of the two provisional licenses went to Nectar- an Oregon-based organization with over 40 dispensary locations, now expanding its territory to include the Ohio market.

According to their website, nectar.store, Nectar has 11 unique brands of marijuana they own and manufacture that are grown on their 5 farms in southern Oregon. These are brands that can only be found in Nectar stores, and the company explains that those proprietary brands “are a key part of our integrated seed-to-sale model that allows for the best deals and best accessibility to high-quality cannabis in our dispensaries.”

The new Euclid location will provide expanded access to medical marijuana to some of the over 93,000 patients currently licensed in the state of Ohio. Only licensed medical patients will be able to purchase marijuana products from the dispensary, and Ohio law limits the amount, form, and THC levels of marijuana each patient can obtain.

Nectar Medical Cannabis Dispensary is open for sales by appointment only. More information is available on their website: nectar.store.