Circle K Signs Deal To Sell Weed At Florida Gas Stations

Bloomberg News reports:

Weed is coming to US gas stations. Green Thumb Industries Inc., one of the largest US cannabis producers, signed a deal with Circle K, the global convenience-store chain, to sell licensed marijuana at its Florida gasoline retailers. The partnership will begin next year with 10 of the company’s 600 locations in the state, Green Thumb said.

The deal is rare, given that legal marijuana has so far been sold only in stand-alone dispensaries in the US. By selling marijuana, which is still illegal at the federal level, at gas stations where consumers buy staples like snacks and cigarettes, the partnership may help push the drug further into the mainstream.

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