One of the state's newest licensed medical cannabis dispensaries, has opened its doors in the capital city.

New era held the grand opening for its Frankfurt dispensary on Friday.

They say educating all patients about the products they sell is a top priority.

I think my biggest thing when it comes to just like dispensaries is kind of narrowing that stigma down, right?

And like getting that stigma out.

I want them to come in and make it feel and have it feel like a very comfortable environment, not have it feel like a medical office, obviously, where we're distributing medical cannabis.

So we're absolutely taking the safety and precautions around that piece of it, because we want to make sure that we're giving them safe products.

But just the comfort, making it feel like it's home.

And then just the education piece, you know, I want to be known as the dispensary that actually, you know, is able to provide that education piece to the patients that are out there.

It is very regulated.

Everything is grown in Kentucky.

And so there's definitely, you know, everything's tested.

There's, you know, CEOs around it.

And so I think that just like the safety around it.

And then I would say, you know, who comes in, right?

And what the purpose of it is.

There are definitely specific conditions, qualifying conditions, such as any form of cancer, masks, things like that, PTSD.

So there's a few conditions that you have to, have to qualify right out the gate.

I think as the program continues, I'm sure that that'll kind of change in a lab and, evolve.

I got into cannabis because I saw how it helped people around me.

Right.

And so I think the biggest thing for me is just understanding how it has an impact on your life and how it can kind of alter and be able to change and, you know, hopefully support, things that you're going through.

It's been absolutely amazing being in the early parts of this, because seeing like, all the licenses and meeting all the license holders out there and the support that we've all given each other.

And so I think that's kind of interesting and fun to see.

You know, we're trying to get the program all up together and the right way and roll it out in the right way.

And that's, I think, huge to talk about because, you know, that's for a state so big, it's still kind of cool to see that small community in that small knit, teamwork that's happening.

According to the Kentucky Cannabis Industry Alliance, New Ara was one of four licensed medical cannabis dispensaries to open in the state in the past week.