Nearly half of New York towns don’t want marijuana dispensaries
Hundreds of New York municipalities don't want Tax revenues.
Last summer NY Adult-use sales. Now nearly half of New York towns don’t want marijuana dispensaries and most are banning consumption lounges, opting out of a multibillion-dollar recreational weed market that is expected to launch in 4Q21. Of the 1,521 municipalities in NY, 47% have said they do not want dispensaries. 54% don’t want consumption sites, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government. The state’s largest and most populous cities, including New York, Buffalo, Yonkers, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, have all opted into the legal weed market. Localities, where skeptics mobilized opposition to dispensaries and consumption lounges, are by and large suburban areas, including most of Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk counties as well as hundreds of municipalities in upstate and western New York.
MICHIGAN had a strong December
Maryland lawmakers with multiple proposals in the works that go beyond a simple referendum!
Sen. Brian Feldman (D-Montgomery County), the vice-chair of the state Senate's Finance Committee, told The Outlaw Report an "informal workgroup" of senators plans to draft legislation to create a framework for adult-use legalization. The senator, who sponsored a 2021 legalization bill that died in committee, said the workgroup's forthcoming bill would serve as a companion to a ballot referendum measure pre-filed in the House of Delegates. That proposal, sponsored by Del. Luke Clippinger (D–Baltimore) and backed by House Speaker Adrienne Jones, would put the question of legalization before Maryland voters on the November ballot. But even if the referendum is approved, legislators could punt on crafting rules and regulations for the adult-use industry until 2023.
