Verilife Cannabis Dispensary Will Have A Grand Opening Saturday In Plymouth Meeting

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA — A new medical marijuana dispensary is opening this weekend in Plymouth Township.

PharmaCann, which says it is one of the country's leading privately-held cannabis companies, announced this week that it will hold a grand opening event for its new Verilife location at 601 West Germantown Pike on Saturday morning.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. after which the medical marijuana dispensary would be open to patients until 8 p.m. that evening.

There are expected to be various deals and specials throughout the day to patients who come by the shop.

"As we expand in Pennsylvania, we are pleased to broaden our service to new patients and communities starting with the addition of our newest Verilife location in Plymouth Meeting," Bill McMenamy, Verilife's president, said in a statement. "Our team is committed to ensuring all patients across Pennsylvania communities have access to our diverse menu of products that allows them to improve their lives through cannabis."

Patch previously reported on Verilife's announcement in August that it would be opening a dispensary at the small commercial strip currently occupied by the Mission BBQ restaurant.

Plymouth Township Manager Karen Weiss previously told Patch that under Pennsylvania's medical marijuana law, dispensaries are permitted to open up wherever retails sales are allowed, and that no planning/zoning/township council approval is needed for a company to open a dispensary.

Verilife says the opening of the Plymouth Meeting location this weekend is part of a business plan to expand its footprint through the Southeastern Pennsylvania region. It says it looks to open additional dispensaries in Lancaster, Quakertown and Pottstown. This expansion, it says, will add to the existing Verilife locations in Chester, Manayunk, Williamsport and Shamokin.

The overall goal is to double the company's existing presence across the commonwealth, Rachel Shaykin wrote to Patch. Shaykin is a media relations professional working with PharmaCann.

The company, she wrote, looks to "reach more patients to support their overall well-being through medical cannabis products."

Pennsylvania's medical marijuana law was signed by Gov. Tom Wolf in April 2016.

This past summer, changes in the law were signed by Wolf that made various revisions to the statute such as increasing the amount of medical marijuana patients could obtain at any given time, removing language that urged chronic pain patients to seek out other drugs first, and narrowing the restriction on people with past drug convictions from working for, or owning, medical marijuana dispensaries.