NEW YORK – It fell to Chris Alexander, the executive director of New York’s Office of Cannabis Management, to personally usher in the era of legal adult-use marijuana sales in the state on Dec. 29.
But it will take more than Alexander – and more than the $95 cash he paid for an eighth of an ounce of New York-grown cannabis and a 100-milligram package of watermelon-flavored THC gummies – for New York’s legal market to fulfill its lofty social justice promises and its multibillion-dollar potential.
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Alexander’s ceremonial first purchase of recreational marijuana came amid the nation’s most audacious illicit cannabis market and a host of other uncertainties.
It’s unclear, for example, when the next legal adult-use retail operator will open its doors in New York state – or deliver recreational product to a customer’s front door.
Dozens of entrepreneurs are on the sidelines waiting –
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