Illinois awards recreational marijuana license to a second metro-east dispensary
A second cannabis dispensary license has been approved in the metro-east.
The Green Solution, located at 2021 Goose Lake Road in Sauget, received approval for a “same-site” adult-use cannabis license, allowing the medical cannabis dispensary to obtain an adult-use dispensing license.
The licenses permit the dispensary to begin selling adult-use cannabis at the locations immediately as long as the dispensary complies with local zoning rules or other local laws.
The Green Solution will be the metro-east’s second adult-use dispensary. Illinois Supply & Provisions in Collinsville has been open since Jan. 1, with large lines at the store almost every day.
However, the Green Solution has been open since 2016, when it was approved to sell medical cannabis in its 8,00 square-foot facility.
The Collinsville dispensary also announced Wednesday it would only sell cannabis to its medical customers on Mondays for the remainder of 2020 to help better serve that customer base and to manage its inventory while cannabis is in short supply due to high demand.
The Green Solution representative said the company does not know when it will be able to offer adult-use product.
This story was originally published January 15, 2020 at 3:44 PM.