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In a renewed push to snuff out New York City’s thriving illegal cannabis market, Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan’s top prosecutor announced Tuesday that

NEW YORK -- When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail. Its a time hed rather not talk about.

The determination of New York’s leaders to do the right thing keeps crashing into their inability to do it the right way.

When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail. Now, at age 50,

When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail. Now, at age 50,

Roland Connor's Manhattan shop is the first to benefit from a program that allocated dispensary licenses for people with marijuana-related convictions.

Smacked is the first Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) opening since the legalization of weed that is run by businesspeople who had been criminalized by cannabis prohibition.

When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail

NEW YORK (AP) — When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail. It’s a time he'd rather not talk about.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/war-on-drugs-locked-him-up-now-hes-a-cannabis-entrepreneur/"></div>NEW YORK (AP) — When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail. It’s a time he’d rather not talk about. Now, at age 50, he has opened the state’s first legal cannabis dispensary to be run by […]<!-- AddTh...