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While the details still need to be ironed out, the writing is on the wall that New York will soon join the other fifteen States who have legalized cannabis for adult use.  It appears that Governor Cuomo is leaning towards adopting his own bill, the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act “CRTA”, instead of the Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act or “MRTA” a bill proposed by Senators Peoples-Stokes and Krueger.  The CRTA will permit delivery services, however, growing cannabis at home will not be permitted (a colleague pointed out how we are back to 1942 and the Wickard v. Filburn ca...

Reply Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and NYC Department of Small Business Services Commissioner Jonnel Doris​ speak with Vincent Licata (center), co-owner of Burger Village in Astoria. (Maya Kaufman/Patch) ASTORIA, QUEENS — Vincent Licata and his brother, Jack, opened the restaurant Burger Village in Astoria just before the state tightened restrictions on businesses like theirs, faced with a rising wintertime wave of coronavirus cases. Three weeks in, the brothers have already laid off half their staff. Two people are working the kitchen, and they have just one server. A hint o...