NYC weed shop crackdown is great news, but without wider reform will just be Whack-a-Mole
NY Post
An illegal NYC weed shop saw the hammer come down last week as part of a wider city crackdown on such stores: Good — but not good enough.
Western Green, a Queens store operating in flagrant violation of the laws that prog legislators assured us would make the retail pot market safe, got raided and shuttered, its copious inventory confiscated.
One down — 2,900-plus to go.
The city’s in this mess thanks to the total botch Albany made of New York’s legal pot rollout.
The Legislature wrapped that effort in suffocating “equity” red tape, meaning that those wanting to set up illegal shops were guaranteed a massive head start.
Then lawsuits driven by the equity nonsense — many triggered by the incompetent Office of Cannabis Management’s bizarre push to hand licenses to former crooks first — slowed things even more.
