Category Archives: cannabis New York

The Highs and Lows of New York’s Cannabis Industry Rollout

Recreational cannabis is now legal in New York. Theoretically, you can go into a dispensary and buy some cannabis and smoke/eat/drink/ingest it, or even open up your own cannabis business. There’s just one problem: there’s an indefinite license freeze going on right now, so nobody knows when new licenses will be rolled out. This article […]

How Revelry is Connecting New Yorkers to the Cannabis Industry

“What we noticed the first couple of years in cannabis was everybody was learning, but there was also a little bit of gatekeeping of information,” Tsui said. “Very specific people were allowed access or had the ability to fundraise. We thought it was important that if people were interested they would have real information, transparent […]

New York’s Cannabis Industry Lights Up the East Coast

As more states embrace legalization, women-led initiatives are helping ease the transition from an illicit to a regulated market. Melissa Moore, director of civil systems reform for the Drug Policy Alliance said Women Grow has been key to helping people learn about the cannabis industry. “Especially in New York, we’ve seen how attending sessions hosted […]