Welcome to Dazed, a cannabis shop operating quietly in a prominent Syracuse location

Syracuse, N.Y. — Unless you’ve had a reason to visit the Syracuse University area in the past few months, you may not know there’s a big new shop in the middle of Marshall Street.

It’s called Dazed, and is one of the newest legal cannabis dispensaries in Central New York.

It’s been open since the end of April.

Yet the shop does not currently list its address — 135 Marshall St. — on its website. It’s also not yet listed on the official lists and maps of licensed cannabis dispensaries kept by the state Office of Cannabis Management.

The OCM does not usually list dispensary locations until they have their grand opening event, an agency spokeswoman said.

Dazed is planning a grand opening, probably around the end of August when students return, said Kasey Tsaganos, one of the shop’s managers.

“We’re sort of doing a soft opening now,” Tsaganos said. “But we will do something bigger when the time is right.”

That hasn’t stopped customers from seeing the big signs and entering the shop, which occupies a large storefront in the space that was most recently home to the last incarnation of the bar Hungry Chuck’s.

Dazed even hosted Carmelo Anthony, the former Syracuse basketball star and NBA Hall of Famer ahead of its April opening. He was there to promote his cannabis brand, STAYME70. He also visited downtown Syracuse’s Flynnstoned dispensary that day.

At Dazed, the products range from a line of the company’s own vapes, pre-rolls, edibles and more to items from other licensed manufacturers, said Eric Abdo, the inventory manager.

Dazed also has a seating area in the front and has a large selection of shirts and other merchandise. It’s meant to be a gathering place as much as a shop, Abdo said.

“Dazed is where the cannabis plant intersects with Music, Art, Fashion and Food,” the company says on its website. “We are a representation of what the cannabis culture was and continues to be. Cannabis is the plant that bridges the gap between people. Dazed is the place where it happens.”

Dazed has three other locations, in Holyoke and Monson Mass. and in New York City’s Union Square.

The New York state cannabis office’s most recent map shows 15 adult-use recreational dispensaries operating in Onondaga County, including some that also have medicinal licenses.

Across the state, there are 433 adult-use dispensaries now open.