NYC is finally shutting down hundreds of unlicensed weed stores that opened after state legalized marijuana in 2021

 NYC is finally shutting down hundreds of unlicensed weed stores that opened after state legalized marijuana in 2021

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…