NY Pushes To Use Cannabis Tax On Social Justice Reparations
It has been about a year since the doors at Upstate CBD opened. Since then, the stigma around CBD has changed dramatically. “When we first opened, CBD was a huge gray area, and then it went mainstr...
Green Thumb Industries Turns Former New York Prison Into Cannabis Campus
The location of a former state prison in New York’s Hudson Valley is being morphed into a $150 million “cannabis campus” by Green Thumb Industries, one of the U.S.’s largest producers of legal can...
New York Senator Wants To Give Cities More Time To Ban Marijuana Businesses
A New York senator pushes to give local jurisdictions another year to decide whether they will opt-out of permitting cannabis businesses to operate in their area– a proposal that advocates say is ...
Ex-Brooklyn Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright Chosen To Lead N.Y. Cannabis Agencies
New York is getting the ball rolling on legal marijuana. The state Senate late Wednesday, September 1, confirmed that former Brooklyn assemblywoman and a prominent recreational marijuana advocate,...
New York Sees Massive Drop In Arrests After Allowing Public Cannabis Smoking
New York City has seen a dramatic drop in the number of cannabis-related arrests and summons in the first quarter since the state’s legalization law took effect. It might not seem too surprising to...
Where Does New York’s New Governor Stand On Marijuana Legalization?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on August 10 that he would resign days after the release of an incriminating report that alleges Cuomo had sexually harassed several women and may face cri...
