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click to enlarge On Wednesday, March 31, New York officially became the 15th state to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults. It's been a long time coming. The bill that Governor Andrew Cuomo signed that day—the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, or MRTA—was originally introduced by Senator Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) in 2013, and had been reintroduced every session since by Krueger and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes (D-Buffalo), picking up cosponsors and popular support every year. It seemed like legalization might get over the hump in 2019, but ...

click to enlarge [Editor's Note: Since publication, New York State has legalized recreational marijuana, opening the doors for a flood of adjacent industries, and embracing some of the most progressive criminal justice reforms associated with the legalization movement.] On February 18, Chronogram Media teamed up with Etain to host "Legal Weed is Coming," a virtual event with a diverse panel of policy influencers, growers, and dispensary owners. The event, held on Zoom, brought together over 150 audience members for a lively discussion on what legalization of recreational marijuan...

Cannabis and the Empire State Last Updated: 02/10/2021 2:48 pm Marijuana flower at Etain's growing facility in Chestertown. Currently licensed in New York to grow and sell medical marijuana, Etain is well positioned to enter the recreational cannabis market. Persistence pays off in politics, and as Governor Cuomo prepares to present a recreational cannabis bill in the upcoming legislative session for the third time in his tenure, the feeling in Albany is that it will happen this time around. Approximately 1.3 ...

The greenhouse at The Pass in Sheffield, Massachussets, a vertically integrated growhouse and dispensary. As cannabis increasingly becomes available nationwide for both medical and recreational use, New York State, where the plant is currently decriminalized, is likely to be among the next states to join one of the least understood, and at times controversial, socioeconomic booms of the century to date—legal cannabis. But how this landscape will appear, and what New Yorkers can come to expect from legalized cannabis should it occur, is dif...