They say the state has failed to follow through on promises to provide them with retail outlet sites and accurate construction costs.
Employees are trained at Stage One Cannabis, one of New York state's legal cannabis dispensaries bedeviled by bureaucratic red tape. | Mona Zhang for POLITICONEW YORK — New York’s fledgling weed entrepreneurs initially felt like they’d won the golden ticket, securing the right to open up the first legal recreational shops in what’s expected to be one of the world’s biggest cannabis markets.
At the same meeting, regulators promised changes to the program, including changing the way locations are approved and providing additional low-interest loans to licensees. “I wouldn’t have applied if I knew I had to incur personal debt in order to do this,” she said in an interview. Dalessio, 49, was awarded a license in Queens last November, qualifying in part due to a prior conviction for cultivating cannabis. He was matched with a location in January, but told POLITICO in an interview that he was pressured by an official with the state-affiliated fund that helps bankroll startup costs into doing a pop-up.
“I’m assuming it’s not only my location,” he said, pointing to other storefronts that the state has also been paying rent on.
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