As soon as the end of this year or early 2023, you’ll be able to walk into legal cannabis dispensaries in many Western New York communities to buy marijuana produced in the state.
And those dispensaries will be owned by someone with a prior conviction related to cannabis or someone with a family member with such a record.
The Cannabis Management Control Board, the state agency that is laying out the groundwork for the regulation for the use and sale of marijuana, announced the plan Thursday that aims to jump start the legal retail business. At the same time, it gives those who found themselves part of the criminal justice system because of marijuana a chance to build a legal business.
“Today, we’ve made a huge advancement in our efforts to prioritize New York small and distressed farmers, equity entrepreneurs and ultimately our goal to generate the resources that will drive the investments into communities that have been most impacted by overcriminalization,” said Chris Alexander, executive director of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management at a meeting of the office’s control board.
“Instead of opening our market with the same existing operators who are dominating the national space, we’ve instead decided to put those who have been most impacted at the center of what we are building here,” he said later during a video news conference.
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