The drive-thru window at a former Burger King on Eastwood Drive in Woodstock is about to start dispensing cannabis instead of burgers. Terrabis, which opened its Woodstock dispensary in March 2025 inside the old fast-food building, plans to open the drive-thru lane later this month, making it among the first few Illinois dispensaries to offer the service after the state changed its law this year.
A New State Law Opens the Lane
Until 2026, Terrabis could not use the drive-thru at its Woodstock location even though the building already had the window built in, according to Shaw Local. That changed when Governor JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 3222 into law on June 12, 2026, a sweeping cannabis reform package that removed the old statutory ban and formally allowed licensed dispensaries statewide to run drive-thru and curbside pickup service, according to a release from the State of Illinois.
The Woodstock City Council approved Terrabis' request to use the drive-thru on September 1, and the item passed on the council's consent agenda without discussion, per the Shaw Local report. Terrabis had applied for permission to use the window, and the company is now working with both state and local regulators as it moves toward opening. Under guidance issued in July by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, dispensaries cannot flip the switch on a drive-thru the moment a city council signs off; operators must first submit site and operational plans to IDFPR for state-level review, according to Marijuana Moment. That state review is meant to make sure vehicle queuing, physical security, and age-verification systems all meet state standards before cars start lining up.
Hours, Ordering, and What Comes With the Window
Once open, the Woodstock drive-thru will run 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, and 6 a.m. to midnight on Sundays and Mondays, per the Shaw Local report. Customers will be able to place orders online before rolling up to pick up their cannabis at the window. Terrabis Woodstock is currently the only open dispensary in the city according to state records, though it sits in a McHenry County market that also includes active shops in McHenry, Cary, Lake in the Hills, and Richmond, following the sudden closure of Crystal Lake's Spark'd dispensary in late 2024, per a report from Shaw Local covering the region. That catchment area is estimated at roughly 107,000 residents across the county.
Dan Ambrosino, per Terrabis, said customers had been asking for a drive-thru in Illinois and that the company was pleased to add the convenience. Terrabis says it plans to have drive-thru service running at all five of its Illinois locations — Woodstock, Dixon, Mundelein, Plainfield, and Grayville — by the end of 2026. On September 4, the company's Grayville store near Interstate 64 launched what it billed as Illinois' first dual-window dispensary drive-thru, letting two vehicles get served at once, according to a release carried on PR Newswire.
Terrabis Already Runs Drive-Thrus in Missouri
Terrabis isn't new to this model. The company opened drive-thrus at its O'Fallon and Springfield, Missouri locations back in 2021, and earlier this year expanded the O'Fallon drive-thru to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That Missouri experience is part of why the company was ready to move quickly once Illinois cleared the way.
Looser Rules, Bigger Purchase Limits
SB 3222 did more than legalize drive-thru windows. The same law doubled Illinois' adult-use possession limits, letting residents 21 and older carry up to 60 grams of cannabis flower, 10 grams of concentrate, and 1,000 milligrams of THC in infused products, according to Sunnyside Cannabis Dispensaries. Out-of-state visitors saw their limits doubled as well, to 30 grams of flower, 5 grams of concentrate, and 500 milligrams of THC. The bill also authorized municipalities to allow dispensary hours until 2 a.m., trimmed mandatory security video retention from 90 days to 60, and let dispensaries hire their own internal security guards rather than requiring third-party contracts, per Fox Rothschild LLP.
Beginning September 10, adult-use dispensaries will also be able to opt in to a companion Medical Cannabis Dispensing Organization License, letting them serve medical patients while exempting qualified patient purchases from the state's Cannabis Purchaser Excise Tax, according to a fact sheet from Dentons. Medical patients are set to receive order prioritization under the state's drive-thru pickup guidelines.
A Market Adding Convenience Amid Falling Prices
The drive-thru push comes as Illinois' cannabis market is going through a strange squeeze: more product moving, less money coming in. Illinois dispensaries sold 27.6 million items totaling $684.3 million in retail sales during the first half of 2026, a 9% jump in product volume but an 18% decline in total dollars compared to the same period in 2025, as Hoodline previously reported. Regulators have attributed part of that dollar decline to the state's shift to the Metrc seed-to-sale tracking system, which more accurately captures register discounts than prior methods.
Since adult-use sales launched in Illinois in January 2020, the state's legal cannabis market has generated more than $7.5 billion in cumulative retail sales and over $438 million in state tax revenue across more than 240 licensed dispensaries, according to Cova Software. Drive-thru lanes, later hours, bigger possession limits, and the coming medical opt-in all point toward the same strategy: cutting friction for customers in a retail landscape that's grown increasingly crowded and price-competitive.
Demand for drive-up convenience predates this year's law change. Back in February, developers in Sycamore sought city authorization for what they called a mobile order fulfillment window, a workaround attempted before state rules formally allowed true drive-thrus, Hoodline reported at the time. For now, Woodstock's converted Burger King is set to become one of the more visible symbols of how quickly the state's cannabis retail rules have shifted since June.
