Budget deal ends marijuana potency tax and targets illegal shops in New York April 19, 2024 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments The state budget that’s expected to be adopted in the coming days calls for repealing the potency tax on marijuana products as well as new regulations intended to give local municipalities, including New York City, the ability to more easily inspect and… Read More→
Black market marijuana tied to Chinese criminal networks infiltrates Maine April 17, 2024 AggregatedNews Maine 0 Comments Maine is the newest frontier for the illicit marijuana trade, with potentially hundreds of suspected unlicensed grow houses operating in the state, a CBS News investigation has found. It's part of a larger phenomenon nationwide. Thousands of illegal marijuana farms… Read More→
New York eyes crackdown on illicit weed shops. Will it work? April 10, 2024 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments New York’s elected officials can agree on one thing when it comes to the state’s troubled marijuana market: The state must do something about the thousands of unlicensed cannabis sellers. And they appear near a deal to give local governments… Read More→
D.C. Delivers the First Round of Warning Letters for Unlicensed Marijuana Dispensaries April 3, 2024 AggregatedNews District of Columbia 0 Comments Time has run out for Initiative 71 gifting shops that exist in D.C.’s marijuana gray market. As of last Friday, the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration delivered 13 warnings to unlicensed cannabis businesses in the city, ordering them to… Read More→
New York’s Marijuana Scorecard: 85 Legal Shops, 2,000 Illegal Ones March 22, 2024 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments After three years of fits and starts, the rollout of New York’s recreational cannabis market gained speed in 2024, most notably with the opening of about 50 licensed dispensaries so far this year. But the licensed retailers, who number about… Read More→
Gangsters, money and murder: How Chinese organized crime is dominating Oklahoma’s illegal medical marijuana market March 20, 2024 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments It seemed an unlikely spot for a showdown between Chinese gangsters: a marijuana farm on the prairie in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. On a Sunday evening in late November 2022, a blue Toyota Corolla sped down a dirt-and-gravel road in the twilight,… Read More→
Illegal pot shops across New York City are hurting legitimate marijuana dispensaries, Gov. Kathy Hochul says March 4, 2024 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments Gov. Kathy Hochul says the abundance of illegal marijuana dispensaries in New York is hurting legitimate businesses, and she's asking social media companies to help her crack down on illegal pot shops. The space where Bar Veloce is now on Ninth Avenue may… Read More→
New York is cracking down on illegal weed stores as legal market struggles to take hold September 20, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments New York officials are ramping up efforts to stop the statewide proliferation of unlicensed smoke shops selling marijuana, as the state struggles to boot up its legal marketplace. Since cannabis became legal in the state in 2021, thousands of unlicensed vendors selling… Read More→
New York state shuts down first unlicensed marijuana dispensaries August 2, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments An unlicensed marijuana dispensary chain with several locations operating across upstate New York became the first to have its stores shut and padlocked by the state under its new cannabis law, state leaders announced Monday. Seven dispensaries in Cayuga, Oswego… Read More→
New York Regulators Begin Raids Of Unlicensed Marijuana Shops June 13, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments New York Gov. Kathy Hochul last week announced new steps to confront the state’s underground marijuana industry and reign in unlicensed cannabis sales. The new measures, which include raids on unlicensed pot shops and seizures of illicit cannabis products, mark… Read More→
NY poised to crack down on illegal marijuana shops. Here’s how it’ll work May 31, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments Cannabis regulators in New York are poised to begin enforcing new state laws aimed at shuttering hundreds of unlicensed shops selling black-market marijuana that undermines the state's fledgling legal cannabis industry. The state Office of Cannabis Management on Tuesday voted… Read More→
Illegal Cannabis Is Making California’s Water Problems Worse May 8, 2023 AggregatedNews Black Market, California 0 Comments Running dry California’s stubbornly persistent illegal cannabis industry isn’t just undercutting the legal market — it’s also behind some of the world’s most blatant water theft. The state’s estimated $8 billion underground marijuana industry consumes staggering volumes of the precious… Read More→
N.Y. expanding its crackdown on illegal pot shops after inability under existing laws May 2, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments State lawmakers are set to expand the government’s ability to shut down an estimated thousands of illegal pot shops in New York. The move by the state’s Democratic supermajorities comes after the state’s Office of Cannabis Management was able to… Read More→
A timeline of Mayor Eric Adams’ shift from embracing to cracking down on illicit cannabis in New York City April 10, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments New York City’s cannabis industry has changed rapidly since early last year, and so has its mayors’ stance toward the plant and its prevalence throughout the five boroughs. An analysis of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ public statements since June of… Read More→
Weed is legal in New York, but the illegal market is still booming. Here’s why March 28, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments New York’s first legal marijuana dispensaries are now up and running. But with the opportunity for both consumers and sellers comes questions about how the new legal market will compete with illegal sales. Marijuana is the most commonly used federally… Read More→