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Legalized marijuana means New York’s 267 licensed dispensaries are offering strange new holiday gifts for the stoner who has it all.
Even if shoppers missed the chance to stuff Christmas stockings with a stash, there’s still a chance to make it a high Hanukkah with products like THC-infused olive oil and Kosher pot gummies.
“Frankincense and myrrh? Great for the wise men. For everyone else, there’s cannabis,” said Melany Dobson, co-founder of upstate weed grower and cultivator Hudson Cannabis Co.
“Sometimes the best presents aren’t just things — they’re a chance to open your loved one’s eyes to how much better life can feel.”
Hudson Cannabis is marketing a popular marijuana strain — Sour Diesel — at as many as 175 retail and delivery shops across the state.
Hudson Sour — available in “dime,” $9 and $10 bags, one-eighth of an ounce or 3.5 grams — packs a wallop with 34% THC.
From pot farm to table
Lisa Barone and Mike Nelson, chefs-turned-farmers at the Herbal Confectionery in New Paltz, are selling cannabis-infused oils to elevate your holiday meals to a new high.
The line of 240 milligram products include Rosemary Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Sage Sunflower Oil and Lemongrass Coconut Oil, and go for $45 at the Weedery in downtown New Paltz.
Brooklyn-based Chef for Higher also offers cannabis-infused honey as well as extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil.
“Cannabis-infused honey is selling extremely well,” said Osbert Orduna, CEO of The Cannabis Place on Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village, which carries Chef for Higher products.
Orduna said a weed-infused brownie bake mix is also popular.
The Cannabis Place also offers gift certificates of $25, $50, $75 and $100 and is a Toys for Tots site — so customers can drop off gifts for needy kids while indulging.
Pre-rolled: ‘The new wine’
There’s also the 10-pack, half-gram pre-rolled joints — Petit J’s — manufactured by cultivator Jenny’s and sold for about $50 at 16 licensed weed shops in New York City and others across the state.
“It’s the right price. The pre-rolls are doing really well,” said owner Jenny Argie.
Younger adults are gravitating to cannabis products more than booze, she said.
“Cannabis is the new wine, the new whisky. Young people are looking for an alternative to alcohol,” Argie said.
Something to chew on
Jenny’s also offers a whole line of Kosher, vegan and zero glycemic or sugar-free edible cannabis products such as Go-Go and Zee-Zee gummies and chocolates.
“These edibles are great for Hanukkah,” Argie said.
There’s also pot available from California for those who pine for West Coast weed.
For those struggling through another New York winter, they can dream of Pacific beaches with Lowell Smokes, which offers pre-rolled weed now available in many New York retail dispensaries.
Fighting pain
Hudson Cannabis sells Rick Simpson Oil aimed at fighting pain or inflammation.
The one-gram “Farmers Blend” oil includes three different weed strains and is sold in a sleek dispenser, containing 35 milligrams of THC.
One dose per click can be consumed orally, topically on the skin, or by adding to a joint or smoking device.
Retail price is $88 online at the Travel Agency, which has stores in Greenwich Village, Midtown and downtown Brooklyn.
“Get this oil for someone on the first night of Chanukah and we guarantee it’ll last all 8 days, and beyond,” Hudson Co. boasts.
Another cannabis manufacturer, 1906, is selling gummies for people seeking fast-acting pain relief — called sour watermelon-flavored Pain AM and plum-flavored Pain PM.
Just showing up at a pot shop can get customers into the Christmas spirit.
Housing Works Cannabis Co., New York’s first legal pot retailer at 750 Broadway in Greenwich Village, has an impressive tree display promoting its stash of weed products.
Not only that, customers can buy Housing Works-Cartography jewelry with “Stoner” nameplates for pot aficionados, with prices ranging from $155 to $1,200.
But stoners need accessories too. There are companies — such as Blazy Susan — that sell rolling papers, pre-rolled cones and rolling trays for consuming marijuana.