NEW YORK: Acreage Holdings, the United States’ largest vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator according to public filings, announced Greenleaf Apothecaries has opened its first “The Botanist” medical cannabis dispensary in Canton, OH.

Acreage maintains a Management Services Agreement with Greenleaf that delivers Acreage’s operational expertise, product development capabilities, and “The Botanist” retail dispensary brand. Greenleaf plans to open additional “The Botanist” dispensaries in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, and Wickliffe that will serve qualifying patients from Ohio’s nearly 12 million residents and an estimated total addressable cannabis market in 2022 of $290 million, according to Arcview Market Research.

Greenleaf is one of three operators in Ohio that was awarded the maximum allotment of five dispensary operating licenses and was also recently awarded a Level 1 provisional cultivation license by the Ohio Department of Commerce. The new cultivation and processing facility will be located in Middlefield, OH.