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McHenry’s first — and by ordinance, only — recreational marijuana dispensary held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week just hours after its sign was mounted on the building at 1711 N. Richmond Ro...
Many of the new pot shops that are managing to get open during a capital crunch have familiar names. In the cannabis industry, Viola Brands is one of them.
Hoffman Estates' first recreational marijuana dispensary, Spark'd, opened Tuesday at 5 E. Golf Road near the intersection of Roselle Road.
The stores in Uptown and West Town are being sold to Miami-based Ayr Wellness, which grows and sells cannabis across multiple states.
"People want to smoke marijuana in places that they couldn’t before because it was taboo and illegal," a cannabis consultant told the Sun-Times. "Just like a bar, just like coffee, this a huge experiential thing."