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Regulators agreed to a settlement that would save 436 retailers from losing their licenses.

A new map illustrating 42 years of marijuana arrests documents the way that New York disproportionately targeted working-class, Black and Hispanic people for decades.

Court challenges and bureaucratic roadblocks have created hurdles for would-be cannabis sellers in the state.

The state made convicted weed dealers the first legal sellers. Those left out sued, and a judge paused the program.

Alex Norman’s fight to protect the brand he created is part of a trend that industry lawyers say threatens small cannabis businesses.

The state solicited entrepreneurs with cannabis convictions to open the first legal dispensaries, but the effort has fallen behind.

Students and teachers said in interviews that some classrooms were in disarray as more and younger students were smoking marijuana at school.

The industry estimates that there could be 63,000 jobs in weed across the state by 2025, many of them in retail and hospitality.

Roland Conner became the first person with a criminal conviction to open a licensed cannabis dispensary in New York with the state’s help.

The first legal sale of recreational weed took place in a dispensary in Manhattan, just meeting the state’s deadline to open a store in 2022.