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NOW OPEN: A Citiva employee is ready to serve patients of Brooklyn’s fi rst medical-marijuana dispensary, which is located on Flatbush Avenue
on the Park Slope–Prospect Heights border. Photo by Colin Mixson
POT LUCK!
Boro’s fi rst medical-marijuana dispensary opens on Slope border
nal pot sold at the facility are
bred to produce a variety of effects,
with some causing highs
more physical than psychological,
Quattrone said.
But customers who visit
the store at 202 Flatbush
Ave. between Dean and Bergen
streets cannot purchase
their Mary Jane as a plant or
any wacky tobacky–infused
edibles at the pot pharmacy,
which is prohibited from
hawking anything someone
can light up and smoke under
the medical-marijuana program
state legislators enacted
in 2014.
Customers must present
their state-issued medicalmarijuana
cards to employees
BY COLIN MIXSON
It’s high time!
Brooklyn’s fi rst medical
marijuana dispensary
opened across the street
from the Barclays Center on
Dec. 30, offi cially starting
the sales of legal, weed-based
remedies in the borough, according
to a spokeswoman
for the facility.
Qualifying patients registered
with the state’s Department
of Health will fi nd
the shelves at Citiva stocked
with reefer-derived oils, vape
pens, pills, and even topical
salves designed to instantly
soothe sore muscles, according
to the company’s president
Michael Quattrone.
The strains of medici-
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Ruff times
for P’Park
dog run
BY COLIN MIXSON
This dog-run project is moving
at a crawl.
Construction of a longawaited
pup playground at the
Prospect Park Parade Ground
ground to a halt after the contractor
chosen for the project
decided not to take the job, a
spokeswoman for the Department
of Parks and Recreation
said.
The agency originally set
a November 2018 deadline to
wrap its year-long process of
putting a contractor in place
for the $640,000 job that a trio
of local pols funded back in
2017.
And the surprise withdrawal
of its fi rst-choice outfi t
will now delay the project by
at least fi ve months as offi cials
scramble to hire their secondchoice
bidder, according to rep
Maeri Ferguson, who said department
bigwigs hope to secure
all necessary approvals
by April.
Contractors typically have
12 months to complete projects
for the Parks Department, so
the recent snafu could push
the dog run’s opening back
to spring 2020, disappointing
those locals who hoped their
four-legged friends could start
sniffi ng butts and chasing
balls at the new park sometime
this year , one of the project’s
chief advocates said.
“It’s a bummer,” said Sal
Garro, a leader of the Kensington
Dog Run Association
and the owner of terrier–grey
hound mix Pocky.
Locals banded together
to form the Association back
in 2015, following their years
of trying to bring a dog run
to the area, which included a
Continued on page 36
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