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New York’s ban on pot ads struck down as violation of free speech

New York’s struggling legal cannabis industry is once again in turmoil after a judge ruled to invalidate state rules banning cannabis advertising and marketing as a violation of commerce and free speech. Fellow Albany Judge Kevin Bryant last summer cited Drug Enforcement Administration rules that give convicted criminals priority licensing over disabled veterans and other […]

114 new licenses approved for New York’s troubled pot program

Gov. Kathy Hochul this week announced approval of more than 100 new state licenses for cannabis sales — as New York City’s embattled cannabis program is in the midst of an overhaul and illegal stores are thriving. Even though it continues. The State Cannabis Control Commission approved 114 new licenses Friday, more than doubling the […]

New York’s racial reparations idiocy

Gov. Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and state Senate President Andrea Stewart-Cousins ​​last week named appointees to the state’s “reparations” commission, beginning a process that is certain to worsen race relations in New York state. The nine-member commission, officially named the Community Reparations and Redress Commission, said: “The legacy of slavery, the subsequent discrimination against […]