The first service-disabled veteran and Latino-owned dispensary in New Jersey is open for business.
After launching The Cannabis Place as New York’s first licensed home delivery cannabis service earlier this year, retired U.S. Marine Osbert Orduna’s venture made its New Jersey debut, unveiling a flagship storefront Nov. 9 in Jersey City.
Orduna, The Cannabis Place’s CEO, said, “We picked this week to open because it’s symbolic in many ways: I am an Iraq veteran; we have the Marine Corps birthday and Veterans Day, so opening Jersey City’s first service-disabled, veteran-owned business makes this week even more special to us and our team.”
Growing up in New York City public housing, Orduna – a first-generation Latino American of Columbian decent – said he has first-hand knowledge of “the indignity of what it feels like to personally be stopped and frisked nearly 100 times, which is what happened to me as a kid and young adult for doing nothing else other than being a poor Latino growing up in the ‘hood.’”