NY officials want to ease buffer rule to open more pot shops: ‘They must be stoned’

 NY officials want to ease buffer rule to open more pot shops: ‘They must be stoned’

The state’s plan comes just as New York City and New York authorities had been starting to make a dent in padlocking hundreds of illegal pot stores.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s cannabis regulators are considering loosening the rules to allow more licensed pot shops to open in city neighborhoods — a half-baked idea that immediately ignited not-in-my-backy…