BUFFALO, N.Y. — At around noon Monday, the owner of Dank cannabis dispensary, Aaron Van Camp, said he got the final go-ahead from New York state to open shop.

"Tomorrow [at] 4:20 (p.m.) first licensed sale and then the doors are open. We've got reefer for sale," he said.

Located at 501 Main Street in downtown Buffalo, Van Camp said the city was very helpful and welcoming. Still, the process of getting what should be Western New York's first state-licensed dispensary open was far more hectic and difficult than he expected.

"We feel blessed to be open," he said. "There's a lot of people that aren't open that should be open. There's a lot of product that needs to be moved. They have to get it right soon somehow. I don't know what to do. I'm not in government. I'm just here trying to sell as much weed as I can to help the people out. But there's some things that have to be done to make the program right. So I hope that they are getting it right soon."

The opening date for Dank has been moving a target.

"The original plan, I think, was a soft opening like eight weeks ago and that didn't really happen," Van Camp said. "So I think we've been telling the media next Tuesday or the Tuesday after for about eight weeks now."

Most recently, he said they were looking at a low-key soft opening on Tuesday and a grand opening this weekend.

However, he said as word got out, plans started to change and that soft opening began getting a little less low-key. He also learned another shop, Herbal IQ in Depew had plans to cut its ribbon Friday.

"I didn't want to overshadow what he's doing,” Van Camp said. “I guess they had big plans. We weren't aware that they had big plans. Ours wasn't like monster plans. We're like, hey, why don't we let them do them and have the weekend and we'll get it open right now.”

The Office of Cannabis Management confirmed Monday everything is in order for Dank to open. While it said Herbal IQ still needs final approval, the chief operating officer said everything remains on track.

Regardless, of who is opening first, Van Camp says he expects his store to evolve.

"It's likely to be so much of a work in progress for a while, but after a couple of weeks we'll have it much smoother than it's going to be going," he said. "And that's why I want to encourage people that this isn't a finished product. We have to get open. They have to have these stores open."

Van Camp said the store has plenty of product to open Tuesday including beverages, edibles, vapes and flowers but will continue to get more and different ones regularly.