Marijuana Usage Hits Record High
across from Queens’ civic hub — including its borough hall, DA’s office and state courthouse — and a store worker says the locale is totally awesome for business.
He said he texted his uncle to see if he would respond to questions from the Post. The owner declined, Moe said. “They just call it a ‘smoke shop,’ get the license for cigarettes and then sell whatever. Nobody checks. Nobody enforces it,” said Naijar, who has owned his newstand for 16 years. State lawmakers have come under fire for approving the law that legalized the recreational use of marijuana in 2021 without addressing enforcement of illegal sales.
Unlicensed pot sellers now face daily fines of up to $10,000 through administrative hearings, and regulators have the power to petition the state Supreme Court to padlock the premises if they fail to stop selling cannabis.
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