The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York is ringing up its first sales, opening up what is expected to be one of the country’s biggest and most lucrative markets for cannabis.
still awaiting word. Among the first round of licensees were eight nonprofits that included Housing Works.
Facing a cluster of cameras, Chris Alexander, the inaugural executive director of the state cannabis office, made the first purchase Thursday morning: watermelon-flavored gummies and a tin of marijuana flowers. “We are the financial center of the world, the greatest city on earth, and I think people will now come here to enjoy all types things," she said.
“We have seen firsthand the ravages of the war on drugs, on people who use drugs, particularly the most marginalized people, low income people,” King said.
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