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Fulfills Key Component of Governor s 2021 State of the State Agenda
Legislation (S.854-A/A.1248-A) Establishes the Office of Cannabis Management; Expands New York s Existing Medical Marijuana Program; Establishes a Licensing System; and Creates a Social and Economic Equity Program Encouraging Individuals Disproportionately Impacted by Cannabis Enforcement to Participate in Industry
Tax Collection Projected to Reach $350 Million Annually and Potentially Create 30,000 to 60,000 Jobs
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation (S.854-A/A.1248-A) legalizing adult-use cannabis, fulfilling a key component of his 2021 State of the State agenda. The bill signing comes after the Governor, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced this past Sunday, March 28, that an agreement had been reached on the legislation. The bill establishes the Office of Cannabis Management to implement a comprehensive regulatory framework that cove
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A historic building in Buffalo’s African American Heritage Corridor, is getting a new life.
The structure at 509 Michigan Ave., next to the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, will be renovated and then doubled to become the home of Vision Multi Media Group, owner of WUFO and Power 95, Even though it is in rough shape, it’s a period building during a period when perhaps even Harriet Tubman walked through this area with the Underground Railroad or maybe even W.E.B. DuBois was around when NAACP was founded, in this exact same area, said state Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes. And so the importance of keeping that building livable into the future, to me, is critical.
What I Learned in High School
How to make money in cannabis.
This Tuesday was 4/20 the bacchanalian holiday for stoners worldwide.
Legend has it that on an April day in 1971 in San Rafael, California, five teenagers got together with a marijuana grower’s “treasure map” in order to get high at their,
ahem, high school. The Grateful Dead got a hold of the idea when one of those kids became a roadie, and the rest is history.
I (vaguely) remember celebrating the occasion growing up as a snot-nosed high-schooler with nothing better to do than take dirty bong hits in the dingy basements of my childhood friends. I did this too often for my own good, I’ll readily admit.