Cannabis farms are booming upstate, but red tape frustrates newly legal shops in the city. Result: confusion – and a very big stash
et’s Be Blunt: No smoking in the plazas” is the message that has been placed around Times Square following newly liberalised cannabis laws that have turned, some say, into a pot-smoking free for all. The legislation has also set off an upstate cultivation boom that produced 300,000 pounds of weed, valued at three-quarters of a billion dollars, in its first harvest.
There is big money at stake. As of March 2022, weed-legal states reported a combined total of $11.2bn in tax revenue from legal, adult-use cannabis sales. Nationally, the legal cannabis market could reach $66bn by 2025. New York mayor Eric Adams says illegal sellers are mocking the city’s system of regulating legal cannabis.
Dobson, 30, is an employee of Abby Rockefeller, who also runs the nearby Churchtown raw milk dairy, where milk cows have named stalls. Rockefeller, a descendant of the oil baron John D,her primary interest is in the natural regeneration of soil – and it turns out that hemp and cannabis are effective in that effort.
Moreover, under state-by-state legalisation moving weed from one to another is illegal. “The regulations are confounding,” says Scott Solomon of OSS Inc, a risk management company involved in providing secure transportation. “In New York, businesses have none of the resources of the big cannabis players.”
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