The state’s failure to follow through on OK’ing dozens of dispensaries for legal marijuana as predicted by Gov. Kathy Hochul last year has thwarted the roughly 200 New York farmers who …
New York’s weed farmers are fuming over the snail’s-pace rollout of legal cannabis shops in the Empire State — complaining they are sitting on mountains of spoiling marijuana crops.
Upstate marijuana farmer Seth Jacobs says the slow roll-out of legal cannabis dispensaries in the state has forced him to sit on hundreds of pounds of weed from last year’s harvest — and he worries it could soon be too old to sell.cannabis sales for recreational use “What we really need to see is more retailers get open, and that’s going to actually give us the sustainable solution,” said Brittany Carbone, co-founder of Tricolla Farms, whose stockpile includes 1,500 packs of pre-rolled cigarettes and about 2,000 packages of edible marijuana.
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