Follow The Post\u2019s live coverage on Winter Storm Fern<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a significant increase in our sales in our New York and New Jersey locations \u2014 in-store and deliveries, Orduna said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s 100 percent because of the storm. We doubled our staff to meet the demand.\u201d<\/p>\n
A New Yorker jogging in Brooklyn during the blizzard. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n
A worker clearing the sidewalk on Sixth Avenue near 47th Street in Manhattan. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n
Orduna had orders going out Saturday and early Sunday before he was set to close his stores at noon Sunday<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of our staff and customers is paramount,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Pablo Velez, owner of the recently opened Flower Daddy in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said customers walked in his cannabis store with their grocery staples.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are on the grocery list. There was more customer traffic on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Customers were buying flowered weed, vapes and gummies \u201cto chill at home during the storm,\u201d Velez said.<\/p>\n
Flower Daddy planned to close Sunday during the blizzard.<\/p>\n
There are now 578 licensed adult-use cannabis dispensaries across the Empire State, including 245 in New York City, since the rollout began three years ago when the legislature legalized sales for recreational use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a run on bread, eggs, milk \u2014 and weed. Potheads swarmed New York\u2019s licensed cannabis shops to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31286,8979,68,6210,22904,57,9,24,55,54,56,8555,58,133,29568],"class_list":["post-112388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-blizzard","tag-cannabis","tag-exclusive","tag-marijuana","tag-marijuana-legalization","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-snow","tag-us-news","tag-weather","tag-winter-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}