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Here's Where To Buy Legal Weed: New York's Cannabis Market Expands, Other States Are Keeping Up

As New York City's ‘Operation Padlock To Protect' gains momentum with New York Governor Kathy Hochul and NYC Mayor Eric Adams announcing recently more than 1,000 illicit cannabis stores have been shut down across the state, the state legal market is expanding. Gov. Hochul recently celebrated the opening of the 150th Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD), The Robinson's Dispensary, located in Albany. That number includes storefronts and temporary delivery-only (TDO) locations that are open and operating statewide.

Benzinga Cannabis Hour Recap: There's A Need To Be 'More Vocal' To Help Women And People Of Color

Only 8% of cannabis CEOs are women and even fewer are African American dispensary owners. "I'm just a little unicorn," Dr. Chanda Macias, CEO of Ilera Holistic Healthcare, said on the most recent Benzinga Cannabis Hour (see video below).