New Yorkers worry over flowering weed market
New York Post,
by
Griffin Kelly
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/30/2022 2:22:38 PM
The Big Apple is going up in smoke. Hell Square–the section of the Lower East Side known for its late-night drunken revelry–is ground zero for storefront weed sales in the city, with at least 13 pot purveyors in a four-block area. One little problem: Selling pot is still illegal. New York legalized recreational weed last year, but the state Office of Cannabis Management has yet to roll out its regulations and licensing system, which could arrive by the end of 2022.(Snip)Granny Za’s on Orchard Street is technically an art dealer where customers pay $75 for a digital image from a local artist
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 4/30/2022 2:43:11 PM (No. 1142734)
Doped up people are easier to control. The totalitarians love to have a bunch of dopers out there, less hassle about their control efforts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/30/2022 2:49:52 PM (No. 1142744)
Correct #1. That’s why joe needed huncher to be a drug addict- to be Joe’s malleable bag boy. Joe couldn’t risk his bag boy having an attack of conscience once he came of age capable of understanding the full illegality and traitorousness of the scam he was drawn into.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/30/2022 3:05:44 PM (No. 1142763)
Marijuana is becoming popular.
They hide the bad effects by calling it CBD and Medical marijuana..
But the House passed a bill last week to legalize recreational use, we will have to see if the senate agrees.
There are going to be a lot of big problems with marijuana.
It's an accident looking to happen with thousands waiting to try it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/30/2022 3:20:36 PM (No. 1142776)
The legalization will just increase the number of addicts. We have enough of a problem with dope and alcohol (something I am too familiar with). Many of the new stoners will move up to harder stuff, and we already are killing thousands with fentanyl (thank you, China, Mexico and Joe Biden). There are plenty of people who say we lost the drug war, so let's make it all legal. Talk about overwhelming our hospitals and funeral homes! There are really only two solutions...a moral reawakening in this country or a Malaysian solution of executing people in possession of drugs. The second is untenable in this country, so only the first is even remotely possible. Given the left's hostility toward the Christian and Jewish religions, I don't see much hope.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/30/2022 3:22:56 PM (No. 1142778)
They can't have a dope street. Dope is illegal. So, everybody decided to call it art gallery street. If you want pot, you have to ask for the art galleries. You will be sent to dope street. It can get awkward. If you are an artist and want to setup an art gallery, you might get sent to dope street too! Details! Details!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 4/30/2022 3:28:57 PM (No. 1142783)
Though sale are prohibited, ticketing all these shops would be a heavy burden on prosecutors.
“They don’t want to be put in a position where they prosecute a bunch of these cases and then ‘X’ number of years down the line they have to implement initiatives and programs to vacate these convictions. They don’t want to flood their offices with cases that will go nowhere.”
The Law is sooo 20th century.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/30/2022 4:43:15 PM (No. 1142822)
How do you tell the "dispensary" dope from the street dope? Yeah, we are going to make millions, no BILLIONS off the taxes, on something you can grow in your garden.
Don't tell me it is equivalent to alcohol - you don't drink to get drunk, but you smoke to get high.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/30/2022 5:59:20 PM (No. 1142854)
Remember the Volsted Act, #4. Legalizing alcohol again? It created alcoholics, millions of addictions, millions of accidents killing others, liver disease. And that's just off the top of my head. If we want to start banning stuff because we think it's a bad idea, start with that. As for weed, all it seems to do is create people who want a lot of snacks. And no, I've never used it but know those who do.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/30/2022 6:03:14 PM (No. 1142857)
They made the Law void with the argument that Govt would get RICH!!! from the Taxes, a year later still haven't figured out how much or how to collect those "Taxes". Imagine what will happen when they "suddenly" decide to try to start collecting them... at the very same time they are trying to make Menthol/flavored tobacco products illegal, and ENFORCE that new law.
Cannabis doesn't even have the same restrictions as tobacco, no filters, no standards, no testing for "Harms", no class action suits and it's industry forced to fund anti "Industry" advertisements, as well as funding anti industry regulatory forces. They even ruled recently that COPS are allowed to be high on duty, but banned from using tobacco even off duty..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/30/2022 7:45:42 PM (No. 1142905)
The government see dollar signs so they will pass laws that tax the products they can't compete wit the shady stores forcing all the legal stores to close. Always happens. Democrat greed with kill the legal business.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zoidberg 5/1/2022 12:04:45 AM (No. 1143014)
There are plenty of people who drink to get drunk - we call them alcoholics. But just as not all people who drink are alcoholics, not all people who use marijuana are bakeheads. And legalizing it won't make that much difference. Those who are inclined to lie around stoned all day are already doing that, regardless of whether or not weed is legal in their state. And there are also those who use it and are high functioning.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/1/2022 6:53:22 AM (No. 1143088)
The pictures of the shop's interiors remind me of rural Arkansas fireworks stands.
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Buy a $75 digital art image by Hunter Biden and on the way out you get a free quarter-ounce of the intoxicant formerly known as marijuana. In Marxist America, some people quite openly break the law and get away with it, from industrial-grade corruption to rioting and looting to judges setting violent criminals free without bail, while others rot in jail for protesting a rigged election. So at what point do the rest of us decide to stop following the law?