NYS clamped down on illegal weed sales??

[Saltwater60]

I thought weed was legal now and they now choose this time to start going after people? They said it, legalizing it was all about the money and I guess so. I don’t support legal weed for recreational use but if you legalize it then legalize it.
I also don’t like how it’s oh they have a hemp license so we can just do as we please without a search warrant.

Following raids on marijuana shops, some question emergency enforcement rules

Stakeholders are questioning some of the OCM’s emergency regulations, and the low-profile way in which regulators approved them.

www.syracuse.com

 

[Apeman]

It is about money. The state will hold the store owners hostage. They'll threaten to pull their license unless they pay a huge fine. Anything they seize the state will "auction" to make money.

They did admit selling some illegal product so they screwed themselves. You'd think anyone with a pot license would realize this state will attempt to squeeze as much money our of you as possible. Plus it's a huge money maker even if you only sell legal products so why screw that up.

 

[Shadow rider]

Legalizing it has always been about the money! Nothing else!
These figures don't include local excise and sales taxes.

 

[stokes]

The feds will legalize it soon. They gotta be kicking themselves in the ass when they see the potential tax revenue they are missing.

 

[Apeman]

The feds will legalize it soon. They gotta be kicking themselves in the ass when they see the potential tax revenue they are missing.

They don't care. They just keep printing money with no regard for inflation.

 

[Bustedknees]

I saw a few roadside stands while riding the bike last summer. They looked very much like Kool-Aid stands but with pot leaves for signs. You want to work around the law, sell a coffee mug then give away a bag of pot for no charge.

 

[stokes]

This state is, as we all knew they would, turned this whole shit into a giant clusterfuck. My neighbor got the grow permit this past year, she opted for doing it inside,less security required for indoor grow,put up 4 new huge greenhouses, had 7 houses full at the October harvest and cant do a damned thing with it. Had to put up 3 brand new silo type storage facilities to hold it til they can tell her which processors she can sell to, and when.

 

[Modean]

I thought weed was legal now and they now choose this time to start going after people? They said it, legalizing it was all about the money and I guess so. I don’t support legal weed for recreational use but if you legalize it then legalize it.
I also don’t like how it’s oh they have a hemp license so we can just do as we please without a search warrant.

Following raids on marijuana shops, some question emergency enforcement rules

Stakeholders are questioning some of the OCM’s emergency regulations, and the low-profile way in which regulators approved them.

www.syracuse.com

NY is upset that they aren't getting their cut.

 

[Jmac00]

whether they make it legal or illegal, the illegal market will continue to flourish.

Because its far less hassle, then buying it legally. And, you can grow your own.

The state wants the revenue, but they make it so hard to do it legally, no one is going to go the legal route

 

[Saltwater60]

NY is upset that they aren't getting their cut.

So NYS is the pimp dealer?

 

[stokes]

whether they make it legal or illegal, the illegal market will continue to flourish.

Because its far less hassle, then buying it legally. And, you can grow your own.

The state wants the revenue, but they make it so hard to do it legally, no one is going to go the legal route

Everywhere they legalized was actually a boon to the black market. The prices for legal weed are way higher than the corner pot dealer. Talkng to a cop, working OT outside the first dispensary in Great Barrington Mass said that most of the people they see going in to the dispensaries were over 50. Said the kids dont want to pay those prices when the "illegal" dealers will deliver it to them for almost half the cost. And enforcement is non existent, even tho in Mass its illegal to carry any in public that isnt in sealed store packaging, you pretty much have to wave it in a cops face and be a total ass for them to care.For like the first 2 yrs after they opened cops were getting sweet OT shifts stationed out side. When it was the only shop in town there was always a line of 100-200 people all day, he told me at closing every night they turned away 100 people. I knew it was a popular sport, but apparently everybody in Mass is a pothead.

 

[Bigfoot]

 

[Bigfoot]

 

[Jmac00]

Everywhere they legalized was actually a boon to the black market. The prices for legal weed are way higher than the corner pot dealer. Talkng to a cop, working OT outside the first dispensary in Great Barrington Mass said that most of the people they see going in to the dispensaries were over 50. Said the kids dont want to pay those prices when the "illegal" dealers will deliver it to them for almost half the cost. And enforcement is non existent, even tho in Mass its illegal to carry any in public that isnt in sealed store packaging, you pretty much have to wave it in a cops face and be a total ass for them to care.For like the first 2 yrs after they opened cops were getting sweet OT shifts stationed out side. When it was the only shop in town there was always a line of 100-200 people all day, he told me at closing every night they turned away 100 people. I knew it was a popular sport, but apparently everybody in Mass is a pothead.

ya, well you see the way those Massholes drive.........

 

[spat]

whether they make it legal or illegal, the illegal market will continue to flourish.

Because its far less hassle, then buying it legally. And, you can grow your own.

The state wants the revenue, but they make it so hard to do it legally, no one is going to go the legal route

Hell, NY is so greedy about this stuff they have black market cigarettes.

 

[FRANKIE]

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Lol!

 

[stokes]

ya, well you see the way those Massholes drive.........

Yeah, when I lived in Staten Island I thought Jersey drivers were the worst........til I moved up here.

 

[Darth]

I don’t support legal weed for recreational use but if you legalize it then legalize it.

So you looked at something this state government did and thought "yeah, you know what? They're doing a bang up job. Let's let them continue making that illegal!"

That blows my mind tbh.

 

[Acer-m14]

im so glad selling poison ivy is still legal LOL ..

 

[Apeman]

ya, well you see the way those Massholes drive.........

You got that right. I lived just outside boston for a year. They're the worst in the nation and I dealt with traffic in Long Beach and LA for a year too. Massholes are way worse.

 

[Shadow rider]

I saw a few roadside stands while riding the bike last summer. They looked very much like Kool-Aid stands but with pot leaves for signs. You want to work around the law, sell a coffee mug then give away a bag of pot for no charge.

If this was along route 365 outside HP, I saw them too! I would think giving it away would be illegal too.

 

[Bustedknees]

If this was along route 365 outside HP, I saw them too! I would think giving it away would be illegal too.

No they were both on backroads between Taberg and Oceola. Doesn't bother me a bit, there's an awful amount of poverty on those hills.

 

[Shadow rider]

No they were both on backroads between Taberg and Oceola. Doesn't bother me a bit, there's an awful amount of poverty on those hills.

Must be franchising! I saw one just west of HP and another along the shore of Hinckley Res.

 

[Shadow rider]

They were both set up under a rainbow colored canopy and the sign out front...nothing but a pot leaf!

 

[stokes]

Must be franchising! I saw one just west of HP and another along the shore of Hinckley Res.

Its black market, not unlikely that they are all supplied and set up by some org crime network
Rainbow canopy?, probly the LBGTQRST crime network

 

[Shadow rider]

 

[SonOfSun]

Everywhere they legalized was actually a boon to the black market. The prices for legal weed are way higher than the corner pot dealer. Talkng to a cop, working OT outside the first dispensary in Great Barrington Mass said that most of the people they see going in to the dispensaries were over 50. Said the kids dont want to pay those prices when the "illegal" dealers will deliver it to them for almost half the cost. And enforcement is non existent, even tho in Mass its illegal to carry any in public that isnt in sealed store packaging, you pretty much have to wave it in a cops face and be a total ass for them to care.For like the first 2 yrs after they opened cops were getting sweet OT shifts stationed out side. When it was the only shop in town there was always a line of 100-200 people all day, he told me at closing every night they turned away 100 people. I knew it was a popular sport, but apparently everybody in Mass is a pothead.

See Seneca nation cigarettes, etc. Way cheaper because no taxes. It is pretty obvious this will be the outcome.

 

[Shadow rider]

See Seneca nation cigarettes, etc. Way cheaper because no taxes. It is pretty obvious this will be the outcome.

Already there are "Nation" dispensaries popping up in the north country, and the Oneidas have plans to build a 50,000 sq.ft. grow house to supply their own dispensaries. Of course, just like their gas sales...It won't be any cheaper for lack of taxes (just more profitable for them)!

 

[Bustedknees]

I went to a x-mas party last night and I see more people openly smoking pot than I did in 1984. I also notice that there's a good number of people who don't use or like alcohol but smoke the weed..

 

[SonOfSun]

Already there are "Nation" dispensaries popping up in the north country, and the Oneidas have plans to build a 50,000 sq.ft. grow house to supply their own dispensaries. Of course, just like their gas sales...It won't be any cheaper for lack of taxes (just more profitable for them)!

Idk. I don't smoke buy a guy I work with does. He always smokes the Seneca brand ones. A few months ago I asked him if they were cheaper. He said a lot that he pays $3.50 for a pack in the carton. I've seen the prices in gas stations for the same NY taxed stuff $8+ per pack.

I'm guessing the "Nation" stuff will be a lot cheaper, not that I care, smoking stuff isn't my thing, but in general I bet it will be a lot cheaper.