Officials in Camden have given approval for the city’s first marijuana dispensary, run by a business that’s been around for nearly 100 years.
“It’s an exciting and extremely humbling experience,” said Bell Pharmacy owner Tony Minniti.
Nowhere else in the country does a pharmacy act as a dispensary for medical and recreational cannabis.
Minniti says they are currently renovating the second floor to create the space for a dispensary, which includes a new $85,000 elevator. Minniti says the business is coming full circle to its history.
“Cannabis was being dispensed medicinally from Bell Pharmacy back in the 30s before prohibition,” said Minniti, who has a label from an old bottle to prove it.
“The previous owners saved everything.”