What is the New York Office of Cannabis Management smoking?

The disaster surrounding legal marijuana in New York is getting worse: the state’s Cannabis Control Board, one of the sector’s key regulators, is considering relaxing the ban on legal marijuana shops located less than 300 meters apart.

What are they smoking?

Governor Hochul was allegedly to clear up a much-needed investigation in the Office of Cannabis Management, the umbrella agency of the CCB.

But judging by this latest brainwave, OCM is still a dysfunctional madhouse.

No surprise, really: The progressive morons in charge there completely botched the rollout of marijuana legalization in the state by favoring former crooks for licenses, which led to serious litigation and countless other shenanigans.

Legal pot shop owners — still only a fraction all Pot shop owners in the Empire State are outraged by the idea.

Okay, that’s fair.

They complied with the law and went through a byzantine process to obtain government approval for their business.

But let’s be honest: your concerns are far secondary to the main problem.

The real reason for social distancing is not to help legal stores succeed, but because everyone—including the OCM idiots, no matter how much they claim otherwise—knows that every cannabis store, legal or not, is a breeding ground for further neighborhood deterioration.

Grass is bad.

It drives you crazy and serves as a gateway drug.

And where it is easily accessible, social decay follows.

Buying from a state-approved vendor has literally no impact on this—something New York’s progressive lawmakers ignored when they passed the 2021 law that sparked this disaster.

The poor implementation, which led to lawsuits from would-be license sellers, and the false, utopian hope that marijuana legalization would somehow lead to greater “justice” were just the insults that added insult to injury.

There is probably no hope of a complete repeal of the legalization of marijuana here (unless there is a political change).

What New York needs, however, is an effective fight against illegal businesses and strict control of legal businesses.

So how about bumping? high reduce the distance between legal businesses instead of considering cutting back and letting the NYPD and other local police forces do their job and take out illegal vendors once and for all?

Legal weed helps no one and is a disaster for the state and the city – as Governor Hochul has admitted.

It’s time for the rest of our marijuana-friendly elected officials and policymakers to admit this and consider correcting course.