NYC is finally shutting down hundreds of unlicensed weed stores that opened after state legalized marijuana in 2021
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Enforcement used to be “kind of a joke, and now it’s not,” said Sasha Nutgent, retail director of Manhattan’s Housing Works Cannabis Co.
Thousands of marijuana shops boldly opened without a license in New York City after the state legalized recreational use of the drug, but after more than a year of lax enforcement, new state rules ar…