IS DISPENSARY DESIGN BOUND TO CHANGE?
LAS VEGAS, NV – JUNE 30: Essence Vegas CEO Armen Yemenidjian (L) high-fives employees at Essence Vegas Cannabis Dispensary as they get ready for the midnight start of recreational marijuana sales on June 30, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. On July 1, Nevada joins seven other states allowing recreational marijuana use and becomes the first of four states that voted to legalize recreational sales in November’s election to allow dispensaries to sell cannabis for recreational use to anyone over 21. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Since the Cole memo arrived in 2013, dispensaries have been liberated from the necessarily medicinal vibe. In the aesthetics of retail cannabis, Harborside next took the reins. We may well be at the tail end of “Apple of Cannabis” design fascination and heading into the rise of themed dispensaries.
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