The “World’s Most Famous Arena” could soon be the greenest.
A top New York state cannabis regulator recently predicted that marijuana will one day be sold at Madison Square Garden.
“This is a new frontier. They’re going to be selling weed at Madison Square Garden eventually,” Damian Fagon, chief equity officer at the Office of Cannabis Management, said on the “I Smoke NY” podcast last month.
MSG declined to comment, but there is no indication that it has plans to begin selling weed.
The Manhattan arena is covered by the state’s Clean Indoor Air Act, which prohibits smoking or vaping in indoor public places.
But the New York law that legalized cannabis in 2021 allows for licensing of lounges where weed can be can be served by “budtenders” — much like the exemption for cigar bars in the anti-smoking law.
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“See the bigger picture here fellas,” Fagon said in the Jan. 31 podcast episode, mentioning the licensing of “smokers’ lounges,” specifically.