Posted on 11/21/2022 8:12:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Legal pot shops in New York are one step closer to becoming a reality.
On Monday, Nov. 21, the state’s Cannabis Control Board approved the first recreational marijuana licenses for 28 business owners and eight nonprofit organizations.
After the Office of Cannabis Management received over 900 applications for Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licenses, the state board will make up to 150 licenses available to individual businesses and another 25 will be reserved for nonprofits, the board said.
Most of the retail licenses announced Monday went to business owners who have been most impacted by the war on drugs, as part of the state’s Seeding Opportunity Initiative, which was announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in March 2022.
Under the initiative, applicants awarded CAURD licenses are required to either have faced a marijuana conviction themselves or be related to someone who has. They also must have owned a profitable business.
The nonprofit organizations that received CAURD licenses were required to have a history of serving current or formerly incarcerated individuals, including helping them find jobs.
Going forward, those applying for recreational marijuana licenses will be considered on a rolling basis, WNBC reports.
“Today is a monumental day for New York’s nascent cannabis industry," Cannabis Control Board Chair Tremaine Wright said.
"With the first adult-use retail dispensary licenses in the hands of businesses and eligible nonprofits, we’ve ensured the first sales will be made at dispensaries operated by those impacted by the unjust enforcement of cannabis prohibition," he continued.
“This is just the start. We will continue to work to build an industry that is open to anyone who wants to participate."
The first pot dispensaries in New York are expected to be open by the end of the year.
State lawmakers legalized recreational marijuana for those 21 and older in March 2021, making it legal to possess up to three ounces of the drug or 24 grams of concentrate for personal use.
That should solve sll of their problems....
But a mellower murder, rape, or insanity.
They don’t have money to pay off their student loans but they’ve got all kinds of money to buy dope and the newest cellphones. Dumbass deadbeats.
RE: will be considered on a rolling basis
Cheech and Chong: Man, we can roll joints with the best of ‘em.
I think Hochul and the others plan a joint announcement.
You’re old enough to have been young in the 60s to recognize those brothers.
The Cayuga Indians have been legally selling on their property in central NY for awhile now - over a year.
There are stores all over WNY who have been selling weed right along since the law was passed. They use a loophole. They sell containers or smoking apparatus for a price which covers that and the weed, and they “gift” you the weed. The other thing they have been doing is creating clubs which charge a “membership fee” once a month and they gift you a bag of weed.
Ok, I must have dreamed the whole thing. Beg your pardon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Shelton#/media/File:Shelton,_Gilbert_4.jpg
His birthday is the day after mine but in another year.
And no one ever rapes, commits murder of beats their wife while drunk, right?
You drug warriors are the biggest bunch of hypocrites.
More tax money in the coffers more crime and chaos for the people
Idiots
the Left loves pushing Weed ~ it has estrogen producing effects !!
yet another way to promote the de-masculinization of society
I stayed at a remote hotel in upstate NY a few months ago. It was apparently on an Indian Reservation because the streetcorner had a hotel, a casino, one pizza joint and about 6 dope shops.
Since there were no other restaurants nearby, I ordered a pizza. Obviously they had been sampling the dope very heavily. They somehow managed to ruin pizza. I threw most of it away.
Yea, legalize dope and make people even more lazy and stupid.
Indeed crime first huh.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
