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Top NY cannabis official exits at pivotal moment for legal rollout
Axel Bernabe helped craft the social justice-oriented licenses, known as the Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary — or CAURD — program, that launched New York’s adult-use marijuana industry.
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Caroline Lewis
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NY gave these weed entrepreneurs a leg up. Now, they could face financial ruin.
Gothamist spoke to half a dozen CAURD license holders about what they could lose financially and emotionally after a New York judge indefinitely paused their business openings.
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Caroline Lewis
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Why the dank seems so stank in NYC: The science behind weed smells
An effort is underway to quantify the chemistry, physics and human behavioral responses behind weed — to inform the next phase of cannabis use where it’s legalized, like New York.
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Sarah Sloat
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Who made the list? 30 out of 400 NY weed shops could still be allowed to open.
Following a court ruling that curtailed weed licenses, hundreds of entrepreneurs in New York’s CAURD program were left off a state-selected list of exemptions.
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Caroline Lewis
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‘Legal jeopardy’: Judge blocks expansion of NY weed licensing program
But recently approved shops can still open.
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Caroline Lewis
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Judge keeps NY’s legal weed rollout paused for now, leaving future shops in limbo
Hundreds of New York cannabis entrepreneurs with dispensary licenses are stuck in limbo after a state judge delayed his decision on whether to lift an order blocking their stores from opening.
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Caroline Lewis
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No new dispensaries: Judge pauses rollout of NY’s legal cannabis industry
Following a lawsuit over disability rights, a state Supreme Court judge released an order on Monday that temporarily blocks the state from issuing new licenses or allowing new dispensaries to open.
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Caroline Lewis
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$12M in 6 months: How New York’s first legal weed retailer exceeded expectations
It’s unclear whether other early licensees who have struggled with New York state’s slow rollout of the retail industry will be able to replicate this success.
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Caroline Lewis
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Manhattan DA orders owner of 11 unlicensed weed bodegas to stop sales, pay $400,000 in fines
This move is the first enforcement action Alvin Bragg’s office has announced as part of its strategy to target shop owners and landlords who are tied to multiple unlicensed cannabis shops.
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Caroline Lewis
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Council poised to pass bill cracking down on weed landlords
The measure would fine landlords who lease to illicit smoke shops
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Brittany Kriegstein
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