New York regulators on Friday approved 114 more adult-use marijuana licenses, but illicit stores continue to outnumber legal operators by nearly 24-to-1.
Estimates vary as to how many unlicensed cannabis sellers there are in New York.
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But according to figures obtained by The New York Times, there are at least 2,000 illicit operators in the state.
Conversely, 87 licensed marijuana retailers are open for business in the state, according to the latest Office of Cannabis Management data.
And of those, 10 are delivery-only, the OCM data shows.
Of the 114 licenses approved by the Cannabis Control Board (CCB) on Friday:
45 were permits to open stores. 38 were non-conditional adult-use permits for “entrepreneurs who applied during the 2023 application window,” which
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