State’s Cannabis Effort is Faltering Amid Roadblocks and Red Tape The state solicited entrepreneurs with cannabis convictions to open the first legal dispensaries, but the effort has fallen behind.
Yeshiva University’s Ban on L.G.B.T.Q. Club Leads to Scrutiny of Funding A lawmaker asked inspectors to look at millions given to the university, which has argued it is a religious institution, not an educational one, to justify its ban on an L.G.B.T.Q. club.
New York State Convicted Him. Now It’s Made Him a Weed Pioneer. Roland Conner became the first person with a criminal conviction to open a licensed cannabis dispensary in New York with the state’s help.