weedery

From weed +‎ -ery.

weedery (countable and uncountable, plural weederies)

1. Weeds collectively.
2. A place full of weeds.
   • 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 2, stanza 72, page 35:

     Hard by there was a place, all covered o're / With ſtinging nettles and ſuch weedery, / The pricking thiſtle the hard'ſt legs would gore, / Under the wall a ſtrait dore we deſcry: / The wall hight Self-conceit; the doore Humility.

3. (informal) A legal marijuana dispensary.
   • 2014 April 19, Chad Garland, “Dispensary rules leave Oregon pot test labs unregulated”, in The Herald, Everett, Washington:

     Bee Young, owner of the state-licensed dispensary Wickit Weedery in Springfield, said she’s seen testing prices jump from $75 before the dispensary rules went into effect in March to $250 since.

   • 2015, Christian Hageseth, Joseph D'Agnese, Big Weed: An Entrepreneur's High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 2–3:

     My name is Christian Hageseth and I sell marijuana for a living. Honest-to-goodness, legal marijuana. The building my architect just designed for me? It's destined to be the world's first weedery.

   • 2015 August 11, Stuart Miller, “Marijuana Legalization in Colorado Leads to First ‘Weedery’”, in The New York Times:

     Wineries and breweries should brace themselves for some unusual competition. Colorado, which legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2012, will get its first “weedery” in early 2016.

• “weedery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.