New York Adult Use Cannabis: A Timing Update March 1, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments By Simon Malinowski, Attorney at Harris Bricken There has a been a lot going on as New York continues to move towards rolling out its full adult use cannabis licensing, which has itself led to a lot of confusion in… Read More→
Looking for a Job? The Cannabis Industry Is Hiring in New York. February 19, 2023 AggregatedNews HR and Staffing, New York 0 Comments The industry estimates that there could be 63,000 jobs in weed across the state by 2025, many of them in retail and hospitality. The first time Kirk Lawrence got a job selling weed, it was in the 1990s at a… Read More→
New York State Convicted Him. Now It’s Made Him a Weed Pioneer. January 25, 2023 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments Roland Conner became the first person with a criminal conviction to open a licensed cannabis dispensary in New York with the state’s help. Roland Conner’s first foray into the weed business as a teenager in the early 1990s resulted in… Read More→
NYC’s Cannabis Underground Is Growing Roots And Building A New Economy January 4, 2023 Pam Chmiel Black Market, New York 2 Comments NYC harbors the most sophisticated illegal import and distribution system of cannabis in the world. And as the industry grows, so do the underground's seed-to-sale operations and product offerings that include non-smoking products like edibles, vapes, and tinctures. NY State… Read More→
NYC’s first legal recreational weed dispensary to open in East Village on Dec. 29 December 21, 2022 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments Housing Works will open New York’s first legal, recreational dispensary near St. Mark’s Place in the East Village on Dec. 29, Gov. Kathy Hochul confirmed Wednesday. The shop, which will replace a shuttered Gap store on East Eighth Street and Broadway,… Read More→
New York Loosens Rules on Locations for Weed Dispensaries December 9, 2022 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments Licensees will no longer be required to accept storefronts leased by the state, a move welcomed by applicants who want more control over their retail locations. New York cannabis regulators have scrapped a rule requiring the state’s first retail operators… Read More→
The 32-Year-Old Tasked With Making Legal Weed Work Queens native Christopher Alexander is building the market from scratch. December 8, 2022 AggregatedNews Industry People 0 Comments Toward the end of July, around 40 people gathered at the Black Spectrum Theatre in Queens to voluntarily sit through a PowerPoint presentation. It was part of a public forum organized by the Office of Cannabis Management, the state regulatory body… Read More→
What’s in New York’s Illicit Cannabis: Germs, Toxins and Metals December 1, 2022 AggregatedNews Black Market, New York 0 Comments A report from a medical cannabis trade group found contaminants such as E. coli and salmonella in some products purchased at unlicensed dispensaries. Some cannabis products sold at unlicensed storefronts in New York are not only illegal, but also contaminated… Read More→
The black market strangled California’s legal weed industry. Now it’s coming for New York. November 13, 2022 AggregatedNews Black Market, New York 0 Comments Lax enforcement has allowed illicit sales to flourish — with little incentive to go mainstream. NEW YORK — Inside a Brooklyn smoke shop, past rows of bongs and other paraphernalia, a display case is piled high with legal hemp and… Read More→
Federal Injunction Halts New York’s Retail Dispensary Application Process November 10, 2022 Sean Mack New York 2 Comments By Sean Mack On November 10, 2022, a New York federal judge entered an order enjoining New York’s retail cannabis dispensary application process in five regions of the state. This decision follows similar decisions from federal courts in Maine and… Read More→
New York’s Cannabis Retail Dispensary Regulations, Part 1: Dispensary Operations November 9, 2022 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments By Matthew Schwartz, Attorney at Harris Bricken As we previously summarized, on Friday, October 28, 2022, the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) released its “Guidance for Adult-Use Dispensaries” (the Regulations). The Regulations provide guidance for Conditional Adult-Use Retails Dispensary (CAURD)… Read More→
For These New York Farmers, Harvest Time Means High Times November 6, 2022 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments In fields from Sag Harbor to Ithaca, a new crop ripened this fall: cannabis plants grown for recreational marijuana. It was a longtime cash crop in the United States, as American as apple pie. Cannabis sativa fields stretched from New… Read More→
Legal Marijuana Still Faces High Hurdles in New York October 24, 2022 AggregatedNews Black Market, New York 0 Comments New York’s optimism is fading Just outside the Luxury Meets Cannabis Conference in New York City last Thursday, where a well-coiffed crowd in designer clothes sampled artisanal hemp beverages and checked out discreet packaging for hash pre-rolls, stores openly sold… Read More→
Approved home-grow regs, new growers and processors approved by Cannabis Control Board September 20, 2022 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments New York’s Cannabis Control Board on Tuesday adopted regulations for medical marijuana home growing, appointed a deputy counsel to the Office of Cannabis Management and approved conditional licenses for 19 cultivators and 10 processors. Members of the CCB and the… Read More→
Cirona Labs Steps It Up With Cookies Deal September 15, 2022 Tom Hymes News & Insights 0 Comments Cirona Labs is a “premier innovator in cannabinoid science” from upstate New York that just announced a deal with Cookies to “help reformulate certain on-shelf Cookies products and develop new ones to expand Cookies’ footprint in hemp-derived cannabinoids.” A statement… Read More→