State senators grilled top officials of the Office of Cannabis Management at a joint subcommittee hearing in Albany on Monday, honing in on the agency’s efforts to manage the proliferation of thousands of unlicensed shops across the state since legalization. OCM executive director Chris Alexander acknowledged the severity of the problem in his opening remarks, […]
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State Cannabis Agency Pauses Trials for Unlicensed Shops
The state Office of Cannabis Management has stopped holding trials where judges may recommend fines and other penalties for illegal sales — pausing consequences following its raids on unlicensed smoke shops. The state cannabis agency made that admission to THE CITY after repeated requests from a reporter to observe one of OCM’s enforcement hearings. The […]