PINE TWP., Mercer Co., Pa. - Mercer County’s second medical marijuana dispensary held its grand opening over the weekend.

The Rise Grove City Dispensary officially opened on Saturday at the Townplace Suites, 231 Westside Square Drive in the Premium Outlets.

Selling vapes, edibles, extracts, topicals, capsules, and other cannabis items, this is the seventeenth Rise Dispensary in Pennsylvania, including locations in Hermitage and New Castle. Rise has dispensaries in fourteen states, including Ohio.

In Pennsylvania, people who qualify for medical marijuana must sign up for the program through the Medical Marijuana Registry and have a physician certify that they suffer from one of the medical conditions that qualify for medical marijuana.

Participants must be 21 and pay for a medical marijuana ID card and get medical marijuana from an approved dispensary in Pennsylvania.

Patients suffering from one of the following medical conditions can participate in Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program:

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  • Anxiety disorders.
  • Autism.
  • Cancer, including remission therapy.
  • Crohn’s disease.
  • Damage to the nervous tissue of the central nervous system (brain-spinal cord) with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, and other associated neuropathies.
  • Dyskinetic and spastic movement disorders.
  • Epilepsy.
  • Glaucoma.
  • HIV / AIDS.
  • Huntington’s disease.
  • Inflammatory bowel disease.
  • Intractable seizures.
  • Multiple sclerosis.
  • Neurodegenerative diseases.
  • Neuropathies.
  • Opioid use disorder for which conventional therapeutic interventions are contraindicated or ineffective, or for which adjunctive therapy is indicated in combination with primary therapeutic interventions.
  • Parkinson’s disease.
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • Severe chronic or intractable pain of neuropathic origin or severe chronic or intractable pain.
  • Sickle cell anemia.
  • Terminal illness.
  • Tourette syndrome. 

Recreational use of marijuana is currently not legal in Pennsylvania. Governor Shapiro has called on the legislature to legalize recreational marijuana, with the revenue going to support government programs.