They’ll NEVER succeed….
While the state and city will get income from marijauna sales by LEGAL and registered places…..
The decriminazation of marijuana has just made illegal weed sales blossom to everywhere…
Weed sellers pay the government overhead?
They just pay the fines….
Raids are won’t stop the wisespead sales……
And the linked piece below show the enforcement raids are being fought…..
New York Police Department officers and state tax agents raided one Manhattan dispensary and were thwarted from raiding another on Tuesday in an exercise of their newly expanded powers to crack down on unlicensed cannabis shops.
The enforcement teams descended late Tuesday morning on the Chelsea and Lower East Side locations of the Empire Cannabis Club — one of the city’s biggest operators of unlicensed dispensaries — to conduct what an official at the Chelsea site described as a routine inspection. After a standoff that lasted several hours, tax agents were seen taking seized products out of the dispensary on Eighth Avenue in Chelsea and loading them into a red van.
Jonathan Elfand, one of the four owners of Empire’s five outlets, said the police had pushed their way behind him into the Chelsea store after he arrived in the afternoon, then briefly detained him.
At the Lower East Side store on Allen Street, his sister, Lenore Elfand, a co-owner, said the authorities refrained from raiding her store after she recorded a video saying she would not consent to a warrantless search. But she said tax agents gave her and the store manager tickets ordering them to appear in court on a charge of obstruction….
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The state has been slow to issue regulations and licenses for legal dispensaries, and there are only 19 operating statewide.
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