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Vital City | The Marijuana Reset New York Needs

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New York urgently needs to take control of its current, uncontrolled experiment with full legalization of recreational marijuana. A laudable desire to correct the injustices of the war on drugs has weakened a program that is currently hobbled by bureaucratic missteps, weak enforcement, an explosion of illegal rogue operators and early evidence of health risks that were never taken seriously. Worst of all, as we head into a tough budget season with city and state deficits looming, the promised benefit of a stream of tax dollars from the new industry has yet to materialize. Gov. Kathy Hochul, the state Legislature and Mayor Eric Adams must overhaul the broken system and get the tax dollars flowing as soon as possible. And that will require dropping New York’s kid-glove treatment of lawbreakers who are undermining the legalization effort at every turn, holding nearly half a billion dollars worth of untaxed product according to the city’s Independent Budget Office, which estimates that ove

What’s gone wrong with the rollout of legalized cannabis — and how it can be fixed New York urgently needs to take control of its current, uncontrolled experiment with full legalization of recreational marijuana. A laudable desire to correct the injustices of the war on drugs has weakened a program that is currently hobbled by bureaucratic missteps, weak enforcement, an explosion of illegal rogue operators and early evidence of health risks that were never taken seriously. Worst of all, as we head into a tough budget season with city and state deficits looming, the promised benefit of a stream

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