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Black Girls Smoke founder and entrepreneur Vic Styles is pushing for New York City parks to create designated smoking spaces for cannabis consumers. Her “Puff in the Park” rally on 4/20 is one step toward that goal. (Video produced by Kay Angrum)

The first legal dispensary to be opened up by a formerly-incarcerated individual made its first sale today. Gaby Acevedo reports.

The first legal dispensary for recreational pot in New York State opens Thursday in Manhattan with products ranging from around $20 – $100. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino takes you inside for a first look.

Licensed growers in New York have $500 million worth of legal marijuana that is ready to be sold — but due to the state’s delays in the rollout, there are no buyers yet. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

Stuck inside a secure storage room for weeks now is almost 2,000 pounds of cannabis — at just one farm alone. With nowhere to sell it due to delays in New York’s legal weed rollout, local growers are sitting on half a billion dollars of marijuana, and the clock is ticking

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

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…

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 it now legal to smoke marijuana in New York, the state is launching a multimedia campaign educating residents on the new cannabis laws. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

Mike Tyson’s cannabis brand has launched ear-shaped marijuana edibles nearly 25 years after he was disqualified from a championship for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear.

Hemp farmers in New York state will be able to apply for a license to grow marijuana this year under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law will allow hemp growers to apply for a conditional adult-use cannabis cultivator license in anticipation of the recreational marijuana market that is expected to open up in New York sometime…