Ashley Southall
City Cannabis Correspondent at The New York Times
Alive, deep fried and Suthunna than a mutha. Cannabis, carnival and policing for @nytimes @NYTMetro.📱: DM, https://t.co/X9xfty8vmu Edges are my own. @HowardU
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Ashley Southall
New York State regulators are investigating some of America's biggest cannabis companies after receiving complaints that they have been selling marijuana to New York dispensaries that comes from unauthorized sources or is grown out of state, an illegal practice that has been called the industry's open secret.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Tracy Mumford |Will Jarvis |Ian Stewart |Jessica Metzger |Ashley Southall
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Ashley Southall
In 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul pitched a $200 million effort to help small business owners with marijuana convictions open New York's first licensed cannabis dispensaries. State lawmakers approved $50 million to help the program, known as the Cannabis Social Equity Investment Fund, begin leasing and renovating stores that were supposed to open the following year. But just 22 of the 150 planned stores have opened since and some owners now say the state lured them into a debt trap.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Ashley Southall
In 2023, Roland Conner became the first person with a criminal conviction to open a licensed cannabis dispensary in New York, making him the face of a $200 million effort to turn people once prosecuted for marijuana offenses into flagship sellers. Retailers like Mr. Conner, who already owned profitable businesses like gyms and restaurants, were recruited by state regulators with the offer of a head-start reaping legalization's windfall. Gov.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Dionne Searcey |Ashley Southall
The inquiries start casually. "Hey, I haven't seen you in a while. How have you been?" But when Alex LaMond's phone lights up with texts from her Brooklyn neighbors, she knows what's coming. Quickly, the conversations turn to chickens. They ask after Agnes and Charlene and the other hens that jut across the brightly colored coop in the community garden where Ms. LaMond volunteers. And then comes the real point of the texts: eggs. "Do you have any extra?" she said the neighbors ask.
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