Sasha Nutgent (Courtesy photo)
(This story appears in the October issue of MJBizMagazine.)
Sasha Nutgent had just one month between being hired as retail manager for Housing Works Cannabis Co. and opening the doors to the first regulated, adult-use marijuana store in New York City.
During that month, Nutgent and the team behind Housing Works, a nonprofit group working to end AIDS and homelessness, would need to hire staff and find a place to operate – a herculean effort even if there was a road map, which there wasn’t.
Housing Works had a known asset in Nutgent, who joined the nonprofit in 2015 and oversaw retail at several thrift shops owned by the group before it was awarded one of New York’s first Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licenses.
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When Housing Works Cannabis Co. opened to the public on Dec. 29 in Greenwich Village, a line stretched around the
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