When her grandmother was diagnosed with ALS and prescribed a trove of side effect-inducing medications, Hillary Peckham and her family began looking into medical marijuana for its homoeopathic properties. It was during their research that the Westchester County natives were struck with an idea for a family-owned business.
A few years later, Peckham, alongside her mother and her sister, founded Etain, one of the first five companies to receive a license to operate under New York’s medical marijuana program that launched in 2015. Now, as the state slowly rolls out its adult-use marijuana guidelines, the company is hoping to make a splash in the newly emerging recreational market before it’s too late.
“Our vision is to be able to get the Etain brand into the adult-use market and scale it so we can be one of the major brands that are recognized and important to New York,” said Peckham, who managed the rollout of Etain’s manufacturing and dispensing operations throughout the state.
The company runs retail medical marijuana dispensaries in Manhattan, Syracuse, Kingston and Yonkers. It closed its Albany dispensary in 2017 to establish a location in New York City in accordance with state law that sets a limit of four dispensaries per medical marijuana company.
For the past 8 years, Etain has been recognized as the only women-owned medical marijuana provider in the state, a…
