The Wu-Tang Clan may hail from Staten Island, but Newark has certainly been good to the Grammy-winning music group. The acclaimed 90s rappers filmed much of their biopic “Wu-Tang: An American Saga” in downtown Newark and the South Ward. Now, one of the group members, Raekwon, is bringing a new venture: Hashstoria, a cannabis lounge, to 799-805 Broad Street.
Hashstoria — a portmanteau of hashish and Astoria, a city in Oregon where a branch of the dispensary is located — is looking to open its fourth location in Newark’s most famous intersection. The news follows a recent decision by the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission to allow customers to consume marijuana where it is sold in certain licensed locations. New Jersey became the eighth state in the nation to approve on-site cannabis consumption.