I admit I was giggly in the days leading up to my visit to Vireo Health in White Plains, NY — one of New York state’s first medical cannabis dispensaries.

I bragged to my friends I was going and was repeatedly asked if I could bring back some weed.

And, yeah, it was pretty funny to tell my dear, sweet, shocked mother, who made me clarify several times it’s just for work.

But in reality, medical marijuana dispensaries — in New York, anyway — are no laughing matter.

New York passed a law in 2014 to make medical marijuana legal, under stipulations. Unlike in, say, Los Angeles, the use of marijuana in New York is regulated strictly.

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