![]() Plus, stay updated with real-time buzz all day through our brand new Inside Congress Live feature. Start your day with Playbook AM, refuel at midday with our Playbook PM halftime report and enrich your evening discussions with Huddle. We’re stepping up our game to ensure you’re fully informed on every key detail inside the Capitol Dome, all day, every day. GO INSIDE THE CAPITOL DOME: From the outset, POLITICO has been your eyes and ears on Capitol Hill, providing the most thorough Congress coverage - from political characters and emerging leaders to leadership squabbles and policy nuggets during committee markups and hearings. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question we want to answer is were we prepared, and if not - and I think we were not - then what do we have to do to be prepared for the next one,” said New York City Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) regarding Mayor Eric Adams’ response to the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. WHERE’S ERIC? No public events scheduled. WHERE’S KATHY? In Erie County with no immediate public schedule. “It is frustrating for those who have been anticipating the opportunity to open businesses, and we have to overcome a lot of hurdles,” she said. Hochul said to expect more store openings soon. State regulators are trying to cut through all the red tape and improve the licensing process, including raising a floundering $200 million public-private fund to help the marijuana entrepreneurs.īut in the meantime, the potential shop owners are miffed, as Zhang reports. Kathy Hochul told reporters June 22 after announcing more efforts to crack down on the illegal market. Regulators are reserving the first dispensary licenses for those who have had past cannabis convictions or an immediate family member with a past conviction - a way to try to repair the decades of criminalization of marijuana that disproportionately impacted minority communities.īut fewer than 20 licensed shops have opened, and the state has struggled to put a clamp on the illegal market that has overwhelmed the legal one. ![]() Not only because it was the second largest state to do so, but also because of the strong social justice provisions. When New York lawmakers voted to legalize marijuana in March 2021 after years of political wrangling, it was seen as a landmark moment. And, more critically, it’s left them without the stores they’ve long figured would be open by now, reports Mona Zhang, POLITICO’s states cannabis policy reporter. | Mona Zhang/POLITICOįor many of New York’s marijuana license awardees, being able to open their own store, legally, was a dream come true - and a chance to reverse their fortunes after having previous weed convictions.īut now, delay after delay two years into the state’s legal marijuana industry has left many of them frustrated. Employees are trained at Stage One Cannabis, one of New York state's legal cannabis dispensaries bedeviled by bureaucratic red tape.
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