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Startling disparity in budgets of Office of Cannabis Management and State Liquor Authority suggests differing priorities at state level The State Liquor Authority and the Office of Cannabis Management on the surface seem like similar agencies: They both regulate the manufacture, distribution and sale within the nation’s fourth-largest state... Read more

The rollout of legal marijuana in New York has been a slow and laborious process. The corner stores aren’t waiting. Not long ago, a mother in Westchester learned from her teenage son that he and his friends had gone to a nearby bodega and bought weed. She understood —... Read more

Some industry hopefuls paid close attention each time regulators announced new dates. They were left with whiplash. ALBANY — Jeff Collins and his wife had big early plans to open their dream dispensary. But nearly two years after recreational cannabis was legalized in New York, most of the regulations... Read more

The Hepworth sisters are famous in the organic food world, but like other farmers, they’re struggling. They hope their new venture will change things. Come summer, the warehouse at Hepworth Farms will be filled with Cherokee Purples, Pink Berkeley Tie-Dyes and dozens more of the heirloom tomato varieties produced... Read more

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 record store in Far Rockaway, Queens, where he had... Read more