HIGH THERE!

Medical pot delivery to your door soon in city

ALBANY — Home delivery of medical marijuana is coming to the five boroughs.

Vireo Health, one of the five licensed pot growers in New York, plans to begin home delivery service in the city, Long Island and Westchester County within three months, the company announced Wednesday.

“New Yorkers have increasingly come to expect home delivery, and we plan on leveraging ‘last mile’ supply chain technologies to meet and exceed patient expectations,” said Vireo Chief Executive Officer Ari Hoffnung.

State health officials first announced plans to allow home cannabis consignment in August as part of a gradual expansion of the tightly regulated program, which launched in January 2016.

Vireo, which also operates dispensaries in Queens and White Plains, Westchester County, is the first of the growers to receive approval for home distribution.

“This is another step in the department’s implementation of the recommendations in the two-year report on New York’s medical marijuana program, in recognition of the fact that, in many cases, patients with serious health conditions cannot leave their homes and have difficulty accessing medical marijuana products,” the Health Department said in a statement.

Vireo officials said “numerous measures” will be taken to ensure safety and security. The pot packages will be handled by at least two employees, and company-owned delivery vehicles will be outfitted with GPS-tracking and other safety devices.

“Home delivery will not only help us to improve upon current services, but also expand our reach to those patients who are unable to travel,” said Dr. Stephen Dahmer, Vireo Health’s chief medical officer.

Vireo said it will announce pricing and other details in the coming weeks.

Certified marijuana patients or family members of patients can sign up for home delivery program updates by visiting vireohealthny.com.

As of Monday, 12,247 patients in New York State have been certified to receive medical marijuana, according to the Health Department.

In addition to allowing home delivery, health officials have also moved in recent weeks to allow nurses and physician’s assistants to certify patients for the drug and have added chronic pain to the list of 10 illnesses that merit treatment with medical marijuana.