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Forbes

March 2023

Game Changer: New NYC Dispensary Offers Dime Bags in Queens

Forbes contributor Janet Burns covered Good Grades' Queens launch and the introduction of an affordable dime-bag concept to the legal market. The piece framed the move as a deliberate answer to one of the biggest tensions in New York's adult-use rollout — that legal prices often sit far above what longtime cannabis consumers are used to paying. By offering small, low-cost packs alongside its full menu, Good Grades made legal, lab-tested cannabis reachable for everyday New Yorkers and used the storefront to introduce neighbors to the licensed market.

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Forbes

January 2024

NYC's Good Grades Dispensary Is A Community Cornerstone

In a follow-up nearly a year later, Forbes revisited Good Grades to look at what changed after the dispensary settled into Jamaica Avenue. The coverage focused on the team's educational approach — staff trained to walk first-time customers through cannabinoids, terpenes, and dosing — and on a customer experience built around long conversations, not transactions. The piece also highlighted continued commitment to affordable price points, an expanded product mix from licensed New York cultivators, and the role a single neighborhood dispensary can play in shifting how people relate to legal cannabis.

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