NY Cannabis Insider Legal Weed Week for January 14, 2023

We’re about halfway through the first month of the year, and NYC cannabis business owners are hitting the ground running in 2023. Let’s take a look at the stories we covered in the NY Cannabis Insider last week.

On Monday, we published an article reviewing the first ever annual report from the Cannabis Management Authority. The 68-page report covers a large body of work done by OCM in 2022, including the agency’s engagement with other government agencies, industry stakeholders and communities as public education, law enforcement, health and safety practices are developed.

The story includes a version of the NY Cannabis Insider’s CliffsNotes report that highlights key findings, new information, and other interesting facts from the comprehensive document.

On Tuesday, we told a big story by announcing that New York will be adding a new registered medical cannabis entity: Hudson Health Extracts. Empire State had 10 ROs for many years, nine of which are large multi-state operators (and one – Etain – was founded by New Yorkers but later acquired by RIV Capital).

In a Dec. 20 decision, Albany County Supreme Court Judge Patrick McGrath ordered the New York City Department of Health, which previously oversaw the state’s medical cannabis program, to issue permits to Hudson Health Extracts to grow, manufacture and sell marijuana for the medical market. Judge McGrath also ordered OCM, which currently oversees the medical marketplace, to work with the company to approve four dispensaries.

We have announced the upcoming inaugural event and meeting of the Asian Cannabis Roundtable, a group that has been informally meeting for about six years and recently formed its board of directors. ACR will hold its first Lunar New Year party in New York City on January 20, and board members will gather the following day for their first formal meeting.

NY Cannabis Insider editor/publisher Brad Rasino published an op-ed Thursday about military veterans’ frustration at the lack of representation in New York’s agencies that control the state’s cannabis industry. Brad spoke with Sarah Stenuf, a conditional farmer in downtown New York and a disabled Army veteran, and Carmine Fiore, an Army veteran and co-chair of the CANY Veterans Committee, about their concerns with how the state is handling veteran inclusion.

“We’ve seen it from state to state — when veterans are written down on a piece of paper, billed, and then they become an afterthought … and I got sick of it,” Stenuf told Brad.

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Stenuf and Fiore also wrote a guest column explaining why veterans are important to New York City’s legal cannabis industry.

Continuing our “People to Know in New York Cannabis” series, last week we featured Terrence Coffey, co-founder of the Cannabis Employment Initiative and adjunct lecturer at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work.

Finally, we posted the latest “Ask Me Anything” segment of attorney Jeffrey Hoffman, in which he interviews Julie Halburd, Vermont’s cannabis regulator.

We’ll be back on Monday with more others.

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