{"id":185055,"date":"2026-04-04T01:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185055\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:50:12","slug":"is-there-enough-cannabis-in-n-y-to-meet-the-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185055\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there enough cannabis in N.Y. to meet the demand?"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Dozens of employees inside a busy Nabis<\/a> warehouse are hard at work, packaging and shipping out boxes and boxes of cannabis products.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s legal cannabis market continues to grow, surpassing $3 billion in total reported retail sales.
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Nabis is one of the largest wholesalers of cannabis in the country.
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Nabis distributes around $1 billion of cannabis a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe store inventory in here. We store up to 30 days\u2019 worth of product and then ship it across the state,\u201d said Nabis co-founder and CEO Vince Ning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nabis has seven warehouses across the country. The one in Rochester is the largest in New York, with 15% of the cannabis market coming through it. And as the market grows, so does the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had 20, 30 people working here last year. Now we\u2019re up to 70, 80 people and moving into a bigger space,\u201d said Ning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nabis distributes around $1 billion of cannabis a year. Ning believes outside of artificial intelligence, cannabis is the fastest growing industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCannabis is the new cash crop,”\u00a0said Ning. “New generations are consuming this even more than alcohol today and you can see it in the wave of legalization that\u2019s occurring state by state.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just like with any growing industry, Ning says there\u2019s waves in the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York is on the rise right now, so hopefully we as an industry don\u2019t get too ahead of ourselves and there\u2019s a big drop off,” said Ning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FLWR CITY COLLECTIVE is one of the brands Nabis distributes. Owner and operator Zach Sarkis says the industry is in a much different place five years since recreational legalization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was 200 and change growers in year one, with the promise that there would be 100 dispensaries. There was about seven by the end of the first year. That created this competitive market. It was really tough,\u201d said Sarkis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, there are now more than 623 legal dispensaries open for business across the state. It\u2019s something Sarkis says helps with preventing over-saturation in the cannabis market.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery shop that opens creates more demand. There is concern from the state\u2019s level that there won\u2019t be enough supply this year, which I doubt,\u201d said Sarkis. \u201cBut that is a positive concern on a producer\u2019s side. Going from a flooded market to there being less supply than demand, just means that there are fair margins.”<\/p>\n

Sarkis also founded the New York Craft Association, an educational platform to help other small cannabis farms navigate the changing industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaves of good times and bad times. Certain parts of this market have been really bad, but there\u2019s also a lot of places where it still feels cool and exciting still,” said Sarkis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Ning says distributors like Nabis can help make those good times last longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe it\u2019s our responsibility and job to inform both sides of the market,\u201d said Ning. “Whether that\u2019s brands or retailers or even consumers, how much to purchase and when so the market doesn\u2019t get too hot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Dozens of employees inside a busy Nabis warehouse are hard at work, packaging and shipping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2024,3478,288,2025,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,18479,115,6317,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-185055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-in-the-community","9":"tag-app-local-business","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-community-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-rachel-niemi","20":"tag-rochester","21":"tag-swarm","22":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185055","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=185055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}