Customers Line up for Opening of MedPharm, the Des Moines Metro's First Medical Marijuana Dispensary

The stores permitted to provide the products opened for the first time on Dec. 1.

Courtesy of MedPharm

Des Moines Register

December 3, 2018

The long-awaited MedPharm Iowa opened this weekend and was met by eager medical marijuana customers despite wet, wintry weather.

More than a dozen people lined up outside the medical cannabis dispensary an hour before it was set to open at 8 a.m. Saturday at 7239 Apple Valley Dr. in Windsor Heights.

In 2017, the Iowa Legislature and governor approved a provision of cannabis products for people with specific medical conditions. The stores permitted to provide the products opened for the first time on Saturday.

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