‘An exciting morning;’ People line up early to get some of Ohio’s first recreational marijuana sales

BEAVERCREEK — Tuesday marks a historic day in Ohio as legal, recreational marijuana sales begin, but it’s not quite like shopping at the grocery store.

In Beavercreek, it didn’t take long for the parking lot to fill up at Trulieve on Tonawanda Trail on Tuesday morning. People were excited to purchase recreational weed.

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“Man, this is the most exciting day since I’ve been 13 years old,” Ray Slone, of Miami Twp., said.

Slone said that he wanted to be one of the first people in line for the first official sale.

“I want to take part of this,” he said. “Man, this is a change.”

Hana Purcell, Trulieve’s Director of Retail for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, told News Center 7 that Tuesday was “an exciting morning.” She was in Beavercreek to help adult-use sales get off the ground in the Buckeye State.

“That’s really what I would recommend is don’t be afraid to ask questions. There’s just a lot of information out there on cannabis. So we’re excited to share that,” she said.

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As shown on News Center 7 at 5:30, buying weed legally isn’t quite like buying other things. You’ll need to bring your ID and anyone under 21 isn’t even allowed inside the dispensaries. In addition to that, you can’t buy it with a credit card.

“There are still some federal regulations around cannabis that does affect some of the, you know, the business we can do with certain companies,” Purcell said. “So, you know, there’s, there’s some red tape there, but we always work our way around it.”

Trulieve says they expect this week to be busy as more and more people come back out to see what legal recreational marijuana is all about.

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