The first legal sales of marijuana on Staten Island took place Thursday with an open-air pot farmer’s market outside the stadium of its professional baseball team — the FerryHawks — prompting the borough’s conservative leaders to call it a dopey idea.

City and state officials approved the “Cannabis Growers Showcase” on public property near the ballpark, but the team’s owners and local elected officials say they weren’t consulted and wouldn’t have approved if they were.

“Oh, my God. It’s a crazy world,” FerryHawks co-owner John Catsimatidis told The Post.

“I’m upset. It’s the dumbing down of America. Baseball and marijuana don’t go well together.” 

He confirmed that the city’s Economic Development Corp. approved using the space outside the FerryHawks ballpark for the pot-selling event. Mayor Eric Adams created an office, Cannabis NYC, to help promote the budding cannabis industry in the Baked Apple. 

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) said hosting a pot market outside the ballpark was a foul ball, not a home run.

“The borough’s North Shore, with its beautiful views of New York Harbor, has so much potential but unfortunately woke politicians won’t get out of its way,” Malliotakis said.

“Crime and open drug use have increased and this will just make it worse. It’s just another reason why Staten Island should secede from the city and self-govern.”

Borough President Vito Fossella noted that one of the island’s 9/11 memorials is next to the ballpark.

“It’s disrespectful. I don’t see the rationale. It’s bizarre,” said Fossella.

There are 23 state-licensed weed retail stores in the state, including 9 in the city. None are in Staten Island.

Staten Islanders deserve to get a cannabis buzz, said Osbert Orduna, CEO of The Cannabis Place, who organized the event on behalf of 12 licensed cannabis farmers, cultivators and processors.

The pot sellers manned 25 tables with 5,000 cannabis products including gummies and other edibles and flowered marijuana.   

“This is the first time legal cannabis is sold on Staten Island. It’s also the largest cannabis growers showcase held in New York City,” Orduna said.

“The location is a home run and it also brings good tidings.”

Orduna boasted that his firm, The Cannabis Place, has now sold weed in all five boroughs. His firm makes home deliveries of cannabis in Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Manhattan.

Still, the slow and rocky rollout of New York’s legal marijuana industry has been a buzz kill since the legislature legalized the sale of weed in 2021.

Regulators gave the first retail cannabis licenses to convicted pot dealers – in a licensing program that is now tied up in the courts after disabled veterans sued, claiming they were being unfairly left out under the law. The pot farmers’ markets were not impacted.

Meanwhile, some 1,500 unlicensed pot smoke shops have sprouted up across the city while only 23 state licensed stores have opened.

Gov. Kathy Hochul recently approved a tougher new law that has beefed up enforcement against the illicit dealers.