Gas & Grass Opens for Business

Budding convenience store is two businesses with two separate entrances: one for the marijuana dispensary and the other for the gasoline.

November 10, 2015

COLORADO SPRINGS – Gas & Grass, dubbed the world’s first pot-friendly filling station by the New York Post, is now open for business.

After holding a soft opening on last week, the “hybrid weed business” opened up in Colorado Springs over the weekend, one a dozen medicinal marijuana facilities owned by a company called Native Roots, which claims to be the company to combine gasoline and cannabis sales. Gas & Grass is two separate businesses with two different entrances, writes the news source: one for the dispensary and the other for the gas.

“It’s really just kind of pairing the convenience in one specific stop,” Native Roots spokesperson Tia Mattson told local NBC affiliate KOAA. “I believe we’ll have lottery tickets, beverages, cigarettes and similar things that you would pick up in a convenience store,” she said. “It’s just one more thing for us to pair up the shopping and convenience of gas with a stop for somebody who is a patient, to knock off both errands at one time.”

The dispensary is for medical marijuana only, so customers will need a prescription from a doctor. However, anyone can buy gasoline. To attract customers, Native Roots will offer medical marijuana patients who shop at the store loyalty discounts on gasoline purchases.

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