In yet a new dysfunctional turn in New York’s rollout of legal cannabis sales, city community boards now face a mad rush of applicants for OKs to open licensed shops.
licenses — but getting permission to operate at a site is a key step in applying to the state Office of Cannabis Management (OCM delayed the process for most of a year by limiting applications to the “justice involved,” one of several categories the Legislature privileged in the law that launched this mess.The law orders boards to decide within 30 days, but expect most of them to delay: They’re just not set up to handle the dozens of applications now rushing in.
Blame then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature for passing a law designed to do everything but make this process orderly, a goof that’s already given us the plague of illegal shops. But Gov. Kathy Hochul is still playing the same game, by her own account “working to build the most equitable adult-use cannabis industry in the nation that invests in communities and rights the wrongs of the past” — rather than seeking sane regulations that protect communities and kids.Ready for an emergency? Expert survivalists swear by these emergency kitsMan slapped with $1.
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