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Nearly two dozen tow trucks, each accompanied by three vehicles with the New York City Sheriff’s Office, were confiscating a number of weed trucks in Manhattan and Brooklyn Wednesday as part of an organized sweep to address community complaints, most of which appear to be over parking, authorities say. The sheriff’s office says the charges that stem from Wednesday’s...

New York state began accepting applications Thursday to open its first legal recreational pot shops, taking a novel approach by reserving the initial roughly 150 retail dispensary licenses for people with past pot convictions or their relatives.

Missouri could become the first state to pass a voter-led effort to require courts to automatically forgive past marijuana crimes.

A 20-year-old Queens man was arrested in northern New Jersey after police found more than 400 pounds of pot in his car, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. On Thursday, Li Fan Feng, of Flushing, was allegedly found to be transporting bulk marijuana that was packaged for sale throughout Bergen County, prosecutors said. Allegedly, during the probe, a search…

The Upstate New York Poison Center is alerting the public after receiving an increase incalls for children and teens who have eaten marijuana edibles. According to the poison center, data from 2019 to 2022 showed a sixfold increase of calls for those 19-years-old and younger who have consumed marijuana edibles. However, when looking at the data from the same time…

Weed World Candies has taken a bite out of its headline-making half-million dollars worth of outstanding parking tickets. The street-side CBD product seller had at least a dozen of its trucks seized back in June by the New York City Sheriff’s office, some towed because the company’s tickets were in judgment, while others were picked up because they were...

Four adult-use cannabis dispensary applications have been approved in Jersey City, including one from actor and rapper Ice-T.

New York City stinks — or so say a growing number of 311 callers filing odor complaints in the five boroughs these days. Mayor Eric Adams says it smells, too, but for him, the biggest offender isn’t anything related to trash or hygiene. It’s pot. “The number 1 thing I smell is pot,” the Democrat said when asked about a…

At a news conference on Friday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams was asked about the cleanliness of the city and he said he doesn’t smell any garbage…just marijuana.

New York’s recreational marijuana market is beginning to sprout, literally, with thin-leafed plants stretching toward the sun in farms around the state. In a novel move, New York gave 203 hemp growers first shot at cultivating marijuana destined for legal sales, which could start by the end of the year. Big indoor growers are expected to join later. But for now,...

A dozen weed trucks were removed by the sheriff’s department in Hell’s Kitchen today, News 4’s Marc Santia is live from the impound lot.

That’s a lot of parking tickets.

NYC Sheriff says 12 Weed World Candies trucks were towed in Manhattan on Tuesday.

The student who brought the edibles to school didn’t know they contained marijuana, officials said.

Fan Controlled Football quarterback Jason Stewart was cut after he celebrated a touchdown pass by smoking a joint on the field during a game.

One month into existence, New Jersey’s recreational marijuana market has done $24 million in sales and regulators on Tuesday voted to grant permits to nearly a dozen new recreational cannabis retailers in their first public meeting since the market opened to the public last month.

Why is New Jersey’s legal marijuana so much more expensive than Michigan’s? NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

Legal weed was a money-maker on its opening day. Nearly $2 million in gross sales were made as the garden state goes “green”

With soul music blaring, free doughnuts in the parking lot, a steel drum and a balloon arch at the entrance, New Jersey’s cannabis kickoff for people 21 and older had the feel of a fair more than a store opening.

Thursday was the first day where people can buy recreational marijuana in New Jersey. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.