War on drugs locked him up. Now he's a cannabis entrepreneur
Roland Connor's Manhattan shop is the first to benefit from a program that allocated dispensary licenses for people with marijuana-related convictions.
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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 […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings bel...