Custom Cannabis, the medical marijuana outlet that opened in Alexander March 7 as the first dispensary in Saline County, announced Wednesday that it is taking stringent steps to protect patients from COVID-19, including enforced social distancing rules and equipping “budtenders” with gloves to be changed after each patient transaction.
The shop, fully owned by an all-Arkansas ownership group led by Dr. James Adametz, is limiting shopping to one patient per budtender at a time inside the dispensary, and it has launched pre-ordering through the Weedmaps website. Patients will be alerted by text message when their order is ready.
“All budtenders will wear gloves and change them after every patient,” the dispensary said in a news release. “Staff disinfects surfaces and touch points after every patient visit.
“The reason why our ownership group came together was that, as health care professionals, we saw the urgent need to explore and provide this medicine to Arkansans,” said Adametz, a Little Rock neurosurgeon. “We’ve always put patients over profit, and this situation is no different. Now more than ever, the patient’s health is our priority.”
Though open a week and a half already, Custom Cannabis’ grand opening, originally planned for March 20, has been indefinitely postponed.
The news release emphasized that Custom Cannabis is owned and operated 100 percent by Arkansans.
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