The Official Dispensary Showroom Tour - Rochester

Come learn directly from the teams who were part of launching many of the first CAURD licensed dispensaries in New York State.

The Bronx Community Foundation, Dutchie, Temeka, KayaPush, and Cannabis Workforce Initiative - in partnership with organizations helping to propel the New York cannabis industry forward, are continuing on The Official Dispensary Showroom Tour in Buffalo/West Seneca.

Each event will include a dispensary installation allowing visitors to see, touch and experience a compliant dispensary built to reflect New York regulations. This event is part of an ongoing adult-use dispensary education experience aimed at communities across the state as well as cannabis retail dispensary licensees and applicants interested in New York’s adult-use cannabis industry. This ongoing event series is important to the New York cannabis industry in a number of ways:

Hands-On Retail Dispensary Experience: The Adult-Use Cannabis Retail Dispensary Showroom and Educational Experience will physically show what an adult-use dispensary needs to be fully compliant in New York. A life-sized dispensary will be built based on current regulations. Education will be based on state regulations and are subject to change.

Workforce Development & Local Community Groups: We will have various organizations who can provide jobs and specific training and certification in the cannabis industry and across the state tabling and participating in this event. This event aims to create equitable workforce and educational opportunities for building generational wealth in under-resourced communities.

Practical Educational Workshops*: Many CAURD applicants and community members have never seen a licensed legal dispensary operation from front-of-house to back-of-house. These workshops will be important for future dispensary operators and budtenders to understand what it takes to compliantly launch and operate an adult-use cannabis retail dispensary.

*Taught by the teams who were part of launching many of the first CAURD licensed dispensaries in New York State.

Event Date and Time:

• Friday June 16th (12:30pm - 8:00pm)

Address: 115 South Avenue - 4th Floor, Rochester, NY 14604 (Business Insight Center, Rochester Public Library)

12:30PM - Doors open for PRESS

1:00 PM - Press Event

• Desmon Lewis, Co-Founder, The Bronx Community Foundation
• Mayor Malik D. Evan, 71st Mayor of Rochester
• Senator Jeremy A. Cooney, Senate District 56
• Anne Forkutza, Head of Industry Relations, Dutchie
• Britni Tantalo & Jayson Tantalo, Co-Founders, The New York CAURD Coalition
• Khari Edwards, Head of Corporate Responsibility, AYR Wellness
• Jennifer Byrnes, Business Insight Center, Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Dispensary Showroom Open Tour & Vendor Showcase

2:30 PM - Legal and Compliance: Dispensary Tour Compliance & Audit Walk Through Experience and Ask Me Anything (Vicente & Prince Lobel Tye*)

3:30 PM - Security Compliance (Forseti)

3:45 PM - Cannabis Employment & Free Job Services (New York Department of Labor)

4:15 PM - BREAK: Dispensary Showroom Open Tour & Vendor Showcase

4:30 PM - Hands-On Workshop: Inventory & Compliant Sales Tech Training (Dutchie*)

5:00 PM - Insurance: Ask Me Anything (Dutchie*)

5:15 PM - Dispensary Job Descriptions, Hiring Best Practices, Calculating Labor (KayaPush*)

6:00 PM - BREAK: Dispensary Showroom Open Tour & Vendor Showcase

6:15 PM - Lab Testing with Dr. Brandy Young (Certainty Analytical Labs)

6:30 PM - Working in a Dispensary & Terpology Training (Cannabis Workforce Initiative)

8:00 PM - Dispensary Showroom Closed

*Come learn directly from the teams who were part of launching many of the first CAURD licensed dispensaries in New York State.

Coming soon to a location near you in collaboration with local groups in your community:

• Long Island: July 14th-15th
• Syracuse: Sept 1st-2nd (w/ The Higher Calling)
• Mid-Hudson: Sept 21st-22nd (w/ Hudson Valley Cannabis Industry Association and Dutchess Community College)
• Queens: October 20th-21st (w/ Erica Ford and Life Camp)
• The Bronx: Dispensary Showroom Wrap Up Event: October 27th (at Beatstro)

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Important Disclaimer: The goal of The Official Dispensary Showroom is to educate potential regulated operators and interested parties about the operational aspects of a compliant retail dispensary business through the creation of a dispensary replica (with no cannabis present) using all currently available state laws, regulations, and guidance provided by the The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM). Visitors should note that the Pop Up is only a replica dispensary for educational purposes. The information in this pop-up is based on proposed regulations, current guidance, and MRTA, and such information is subject to change. The regulations are in draft form and are subject to an ongoing comment period where OCM is accepting comments regarding suggested changes. Further, for operational aspects not currently covered by applicable laws or regulations, the information displayed will be based on best practices in other regulated markets and is also subject to change.

No cannabis will be present, allowed or sold at this event. 100% of proceeds will be utilized to event production costs, affordable attendee event access, and contributions directly back into local community groups who are helping produce the event. This will result in a professional and compliant experience for guests, community members and our valued sponsors alike.

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Este evento será el primero de su tipo en el estado de Nueva York en brindar una experiencia educativa integral sobre la venta en dispensarios (detalles de dispensarios), una feria de desarrollo de la fuerza laboral con organizaciones que pueden brindar entrenamientos y empleos en la industria, junto con una serie de oradores de funcionarios estatales y locales, grupos comunitarios y profesionales que brindan educación sobre equidad social, abogacia y oportunidades generales en la industria del canabis.

No habrá Canabis presente, permitido, o a la venta en el evento.

Este evento enfatizara en como combatir el estigma asociado con el canabis, la abogacia necesaria para apoyar la equidad social en la industria y analizar las oportunidades que brinda la industria para generar riqueza generacional en el Bronx y más allá.

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NOTICE OF FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY:

When you enter The Official Dispensary Showroom (“ODS”) event, you enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur.

By entering the event premises, you consent to interview(s), photography, audio recording, video recording and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, web casts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose by ODS and its affiliates and representatives. Images, photos and/or videos may be used to promote similar ODS events in the future, highlight the event and exhibit the capabilities of ODS. You release ODS, its officers and employees, and each and all persons involved from any liability connected with the taking, recording, digitizing, or publication and use of interviews, photographs, computer images, video and/or or sound recordings.

By entering the event premises, you waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with any use, exhibition, streaming, web casting, televising, or other publication of these materials, regardless of the purpose or sponsoring of such use, exhibiting, broadcasting, web casting, or other publication irrespective of whether a fee for admission or sponsorship is charged.

You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by ODS or the person or entity designated to do so by ODS.

You have been fully informed of your consent, waiver of liability, and release before entering the event.

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AVISO DE FILMACIÓN Y FOTOGRAFÍA:

Cuando entra al evento The Official Dispensary Showroom ("ODS"), entrara a un área donde se pueden realizar fotografías y grabaciones de audio y video.

Al entrar a las instalaciones del evento, acepta entrevistas, fotografías, grabaciones de audio, grabaciones de video y su lanzamiento, publicación, exhibición o reproducción para ser utilizadas para noticias, transmisiones web, fines promocionales, transmisiones por televisión, publicidad, inclusión en sitios web, redes sociales o cualquier otro propósito por parte de ODS y sus afiliados y representantes. Se pueden usar imágenes, fotografías y/o videos para promover eventos similares de ODS en el futuro, resaltar el evento y exhibir las capacidades de ODS. Usted libera a ODS, sus funcionarios y empleados, y a todas y cada una de las personas involucradas de cualquier responsabilidad relacionada con la toma, grabación, digitalización o publicación y uso de entrevistas, fotografías, imágenes de computadora, videos y/o grabaciones de sonido.

Al entrar a las instalaciones del evento, renuncia a todos los derechos que pueda tener sobre cualquier reclamo de pago o regalías en relación con cualquier uso, exhibición, transmisión, transmisión web, televisión u otra publicación de estos materiales, independientemente del propósito o patrocinio de tal uso, exhibición, transmisión, transmisión web u otra publicación, independientemente de si se cobra una tarifa de admisión o patrocinio.

También renuncia a cualquier derecho de inspeccionar o aprobar cualquier foto, video o grabación de audio tomada por ODS o la persona o entidad designada para hacerlo por GDS.

Se le ha informado completamente de su consentimiento, exención de responsabilidad y liberación antes de ingresar al evento.

Event Venue

Business Insight Center - Rochester Public Library, 115 South Avenue, Rochester, United States