as in pharmacies
a place where medicine or minor medical treatment is given
a hospital dispensary
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Recent Examples of dispensaries
Several marijuana products sold by a single company to dispensaries across Colorado have potentially unsafe pesticides that exceed the legal limits, state health and business regulators said in a health advisory on Wednesday.
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Austen Erblat, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
Nearly two decades after individual states began allowing cannabis to be used for medicinal purposes, many licensed dispensaries still can’t accept credit or debit cards because payment processors won’t take them on as clients.
—Hannah Parker, NBC news, 24 Dec. 2025
The state also maintains cannabis agreements with White Earth Nation, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, the Prairie Island Indian Community, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, which operate a number of dispensaries around the state.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2025
In 2025, dispensaries regularly stock joints that have more than 35 percent THC.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2025
Major retailers include Gotham, whose four New York locations are, according to founder Joanne Wilson, modeled not after traditional dispensaries but multi-brand retail and concept stores from around the world, like Paris’ (since-shuttered) Colette, and Printemps.
—Oset Babür-Winter, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
The study, published in September 2021, found the rate was highest in counties with no prior marijuana dispensaries.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
There, a coalition of dispensaries recently sued Sacred Leaf and other Kansas City-area gray-market shops, claiming the retailers are skirting Missouri’s cannabis laws and undermining the regulated market.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 26 Nov. 2025
Leonowicz wonders about dispensaries in border towns that are heavily dependent on marijuana consumers from other states coming to Michigan to buy cannabis, such as New Buffalo in southwest Michigan and Monroe, near the Ohio border.
—Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Austen Erblat, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
Nearly two decades after individual states began allowing cannabis to be used for medicinal purposes, many licensed dispensaries still can’t accept credit or debit cards because payment processors won’t take them on as clients.
—Hannah Parker, NBC news, 24 Dec. 2025
The state also maintains cannabis agreements with White Earth Nation, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, the Prairie Island Indian Community, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, which operate a number of dispensaries around the state.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2025
In 2025, dispensaries regularly stock joints that have more than 35 percent THC.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2025
Major retailers include Gotham, whose four New York locations are, according to founder Joanne Wilson, modeled not after traditional dispensaries but multi-brand retail and concept stores from around the world, like Paris’ (since-shuttered) Colette, and Printemps.
—Oset Babür-Winter, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
The study, published in September 2021, found the rate was highest in counties with no prior marijuana dispensaries.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
There, a coalition of dispensaries recently sued Sacred Leaf and other Kansas City-area gray-market shops, claiming the retailers are skirting Missouri’s cannabis laws and undermining the regulated market.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 26 Nov. 2025
Leonowicz wonders about dispensaries in border towns that are heavily dependent on marijuana consumers from other states coming to Michigan to buy cannabis, such as New Buffalo in southwest Michigan and Monroe, near the Ohio border.
—Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispensaries
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Few people are venturing from their homes, although businesses have begun to reopen and the long lines that had snaked outside the few pharmacies and supermarkets that were operational over the weekend are disappearing.—
Matt Nighswander,
NBC news,
7 Jan. 2026
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Online pharmacies like Mistr and Q Care Plus offer PrEP without an in-person appointment, and lab work can be done at home.—
Zach Dyer,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
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When drugstores permanently close, as has been the trend in recent years, patients often have to travel farther to get their medications, posing a larger risk to older adults.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Originally created in New Bern, North Carolina, Pepsi was first sold in drugstores.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Dispensaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispensaries. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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