Drugs
Liquor license applicants are required to come before community boards before a license is granted — but that’s not the process for weed businesses.
Which weed dispensaries are officially open? What about legal delivery? Can you grow a plant? And more burning questions about the rollout of recreational consumption in the city.
Officials pledge loans and cost caps, but an angry license-holder calls current practices ‘downright shady.’
Business owners looking for retail space to site licensed weed stores say the state Dormitory Authority is rejecting locations deemed too close to competing state-leased storefronts.
‘Nuisance abatement’ cases are still pending in court, with just four filed so far, all in the East Village.
City law enforcement officials and City Council members probed the grimmer side of NYC’s rowdy cannabis gray market.
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