New York’s now rushing to screw up the legal weed – Latest News
State authorities apparently hasn’t screwed up pot legalization badly enough but: Now it’s trying to dictate wages for “budtenders,” licensed “ganjiers” (hashish sommeliers) and “trimmers” at legal-MJ outlets.
Yes: Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Cannabis Control Board is trying to set up a union-run wage board to oversee the legal industry, when the state continues to be tormented by gray-market pot outlets thanks to the ill-conceived and moronically-managed legalization scheme.
Is anyone concerned right here not smoking the product?
Hochul supposedly purged the incompetents who’d been operating the Control Board over a 12 months in the past, nevertheless it appears she solely put in a union hack and an “empowerment zone” grifter as a substitute.
To recap in short: The law the Legislature bought then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to signal immediately decriminalized pot long earlier than the state may set up a system to license and oversee legal weed outlets.
So a horde of entrepreneurs with folding tables and magic markers set up on sidewalks and in parks, shortly adopted by 1000’s of not-really-legal brick-and-mortar shops operating with out a trace of regulation, group approval and even dependable taxation.
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And police had no actual energy to stop them.
Unlike even permissive California and Colorado, our Legislature didn’t keep the ban on public use — so the skunky fug of burning weed is now in all places, making America’s biggest metropolis stink like a teen’s closet.
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And don’t get us began on the issues attributable to lawmakers’ insistence on hobbling the Control Board with an absurd social-justice mission to in some way “repair” the harms attributable to previous enforcement of legal guidelines towards pot.
Now a “wage board” to micromanage the truly-legal outlets which are nonetheless getting on their ft?
We’ve long suspected Cuomo, personally a fairly sq. man, was blissful to let the Legislature bungle legalization fairly than get his own fingers soiled; now we’ve got to marvel if Hochul, additionally no beatnik, is content material to let authorities over-regulation mess the industry up again.
It’s arduous to see how fairly clever leaders in any other case may nonetheless be piling screwup on prime of screwup.
