Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation, one of the state’s three approved medical cannabis suppliers, has opened its first permanent prescription pickup location in San Antonio, officials said Friday.
Located near Alamo Heights, the new storefront at 1464 Austin Highway, Suite 104, will operate 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Texas Original has three other drop-off points in the San Antonio area, but they’re not standalone stores and patients are only able to collect prescriptions once weekly.
“One of the principal deterrents in the past for people [using the state’s medical cannabis program] is that they don’t want to wait a week to pick up the medication they need,” Texas Original CEO Nico Richardson said of its new brick-and-mortar site.
Richardson’s company also operates five other permanent pickup stores, which are spread between Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and Houston. The locations aren’t walk-in dispensaries, meaning a patient already must be enrolled in the state’s so-called Compassionate Use Program to make purchases there.