The first legal recreational marijuana dispensary is opening in New York today.
Housing Works will sell marijuana at their place on Broadway in Astor Place. CEO Charles King says they are employing people who have been previously criminalized for marijuana.
"Not only do we want to train them to work at Housing Works cannabis but we also want to give them advance training in management so they can move up in the industry."
King says money made from weed sales will go to fight the non profit’s causes, homelessness and HIV/AIDS. The state is expected to announce more legal dispensaries soon.