08 Feb Tragedy to Triumph: The Story of Chelsea,’s First Legal Dispensary, Verdi Cannabis [Interview with Founder, Ellis Soodak]

Amongst the bustle of Chelsea’s many illegal dispensaries, a licensed one by the name of Verdi has finally arrived, marking the neighborhood’s first legal weed shop. Unlike many of the initial New York dispensaries, Verdi is family-owned and operated, as well as self-funded. While the market is only a year old, this venture was decades in the making for the Soodak family, with the initial pieces moving even before the founder was born. Though the beginnings were marked with tragedy, […]

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