Hundreds of people impacted by cannabis-related criminal charges will finally be allowed to move forward with the pot-shops they had already been granted licenses for — if the terms of a settlement agreement filed Tuesday are approved. With marijuana legalization in 2021, the state created a special class of license called the Conditional Adult-Use Retail […]
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‘Social Equity’ Legal Weed Dealers Prepare to Bail on Stagnant Funding Program
Berkay Sebat has been edging toward becoming the owner and operator of one of the state’s first cannabis dispensaries. But it’s been four months since the Office of Cannabis Management informed him that he’d been matched with a storefront in SoHo, and he’s not sure he’ll ever get his site. A court injunction on the […]
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Pot Boss: $20K-a-Day Fines Not Enough to Deter Illegal Shops
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, […]