New York City’s unlicensed weed bodegas are estimated to outnumber licensed shops by about 250-to-1. That isn’t stopping Gov. Hochul from pouring resources into cannabis crackdowns as the legal industry struggles to get off the ground.
, a cannabis holiday, was still open for business and purporting to sell marijuana in Midtown last week.
"New York is proud to have undertaken the most equitable legal cannabis roll-out in the nation and the state will not stand idle as unlicensed operators break the law and sell untested products to underage New Yorkers," Hochul said in her announcement of the raids. Hochul launched a campaign earlier this year to encourage New Yorkers to shop at stores with regulated and tested products, and the state issued special signs with QR codes for licensed shops to hang in their windows. But it’s still rare to encounter a store with the state’s seal of approval, while flashy weed bodegas are plentiful.
At last week’s meeting of the state’s Cannabis Control Board, farmers who have been tapped to supply the legal industry appeared distraught by how few dispensaries there were to buy the cannabis they had invested in growing so far.
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