An unknown but significant amount of the $1 billion worth of adult-use marijuana sold at licensed stores in New York last year originated from other markets in violation of state and federal laws, operators and regulators agree.
But nobody can say with any confidence just how bad New York’s “inversion” problem has become.
That’s in large part because the state still lacks a functioning track-and-trace oversight system, more than two years after the first regulated adult-use sale.
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Operators claim smuggling cannabis from out of state into the legal supply chain, a practice known as inversion, also happens in states with track-and-trace systems such as Colorado, as MJBizDaily has reported.
Inversion is widely acknowledged in New York.
Officials at the state’s Office of Cannabis
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