Ocean County's first legalized cannabis business has opened as of July 5, and the team at Waretown's Bloc Dispensary encourages residents to throw out their old-fashioned ideas about marijuana and give them a chance.
Bloc Dispensary, located at 501 U.S. 9 South, is a purely medical cannabis facility, as required by Waretown's laws. You need to have a medical marijuana card to even enter the store.
Patch was there on its opening day as a steady amount of customers entered the store, hoping to get their hands on the products they needed.
The location is the first medical marijuana business in Ocean County, Bloc's third dispensary in the state and also has something few other dispensaries across the country have - a drive thru option, which was actually used for the first time as Patch was visiting the facility. It's only the second drive thru option for cannabis stores in New Jersey, with the other one located in Lodi.