Drugs

Community Boards Demoted in Location Approvals for Legal Cannabis Shops

July 21, 2023, 5:00 a.m.July 21, 2023, 11:51 a.m.

Liquor license applicants are required to come before community boards before a license is granted — but that’s not the process for weed businesses.

A worker at the Statis cannabis shop on East Tremont Avenue in The Bronx shows of some of their product.

How to New York

Your Guide to Legal Cannabis in New York City: Where to Buy and How it Works

July 18, 2023, 5:00 a.m.June 20, 2024, 5:13 p.m.

Which weed dispensaries are officially open? What about legal delivery? Can you grow a plant? And more burning questions about the rollout of recreational consumption in the city.

Drugs

Weed Retailers Rail Against ‘Financial Slavery’ in State Cannabis Rollout

June 7, 2023, 4:18 p.m.June 7, 2023, 4:24 p.m.

Officials pledge loans and cost caps, but an angry license-holder calls current practices ‘downright shady.’

State Government

Why Can’t Legal Cannabis Sellers Open Shops? Sometimes NY State Is Their Adversary

March 20, 2023, 5:00 a.m.March 21, 2023, 4:48 p.m.

Business owners looking for retail space to site licensed weed stores say the state Dormitory Authority is rejecting locations deemed too close to competing state-leased storefronts.

Drugs

Unlicensed Pot Shops Still Selling Weed Following NYPD Shutdown Actions

March 3, 2023, 7:19 p.m.May 30, 2024, 1:30 p.m.

‘Nuisance abatement’ cases are still pending in court, with just four filed so far, all in the East Village.

Crime

Shops and Robberies in the Years of Unlicensed Weed Selling

Jan. 18, 2023, 8:37 p.m.Jan. 18, 2023, 8:37 p.m.

City law enforcement officials and City Council probed the grimmer side of NYC’s rowdy cannabis gray market.

NYPD

Feds Investigating Drug-Planting Allegations Involving NYPD Officers

Dec. 13, 2022, 2:50 p.m.Oct. 12, 2023, 8:04 a.m.

The allegations had previously been dismissed by the NYPD and the Staten Island District Attorney’s Office despite explosive video footage from two separate car stops in Staten Island in 2018.

Drugs

Saving Lives or Ruining the Neighborhood? East Harlem Locals at Odds as America’s First Safe Injection Site Turns One

Dec. 13, 2022, 5:03 a.m.Dec. 12, 2022, 9:25 p.m.

The city says that the safe injection site in the neighborhood, the first in the nation, is reducing not just overdoses, but also nearby drug use and crime. But many locals and the NYPD disagree.