With the end of the year quickly approaching, New York state officials are scrambling to fulfill their promise of opening recreational marijuana dispensaries.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.As a Bronx teenager growing up in the 1970s, Gregory Pereira sold loose joints at clubs and after-hours spots for $1 a piece. It’s how he supported himself, since his mother was addicted to heroin and his dad lived on the other side of the country, he said.
The initial application window closed on Sept. 26, and the recently established New York Office of Cannabis Management now has the Herculean task of whittling those applicants down to about 150. That’s the number of licenses being distributed in the first round statewide, with about 70 to be located in New York City.
“We think the majority of those [900] applications are from people who don’t even qualify,” Northrup said at the gathering, noting that hundreds were submitted at the last minute. “You all qualify.” “We think it’s not feasible for a startup like we are,” he said. Instead, they named Co-op City in the Bronx as their first choice.
Jesse Campoamor, who helped craft the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act and has been working with dispensary applicants as a consultant, said he is concerned that some of properties will be expensive “vanity locations” that will make it hard for applicants to see a quick return on their investments.
Dragutsky and others are just becoming aware of this issue as they start talking to cannabis farmers who could supply their shops.
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