Something new brought hundreds of people to the streets of New York yesterday: the state’s very first legal recreational weed sales.
— which operates thrift and bookstores throughout the city, providing jobs and services to the unhoused as well as people suffering from addiction or HIV/AIDS — was responsible for opening the city’s first legal dispensary. “We see the effects of drug criminalization everyday,” Housing Works CEO Charles King tells, adding that they plan to start a program to help “justice-involved” individuals with drug convictions get licensed for the new industry.
As for the question of whether or not New Yorkers — who currently have access to the most robust cannabis black market in the country, if not the world — would be willing to pay a premium for legal weed, those at the event saw the turnout as a good sign. “People were saying [New Yorkers] didn’t want legal weed,” says Trivette Knowles, spokesperson for the New York State Office of Cannabis Management. “[But] for safe, legal weed — New York will be the place to go.
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