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James Hilbert, the owner of the beer boutique One Stop Brew Shop in Greece, has spent years carving out a niche as a purveyor of a highly curated selection of sour ales, Saisons, and IPAs. But his fastest growing product for months has been an inebriant of a different variety: THC-infused seltzers

Jonathan Elfand built a $25 million-dollar kingdom with Empire Cannabis Club. Then state tax officials raided his dispensaries. And he’s ready for battle. On a hot Tuesday morning in July, a phalanx of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance agents, with bulletproof vests and handguns on

Republicans in the state Legislature are calling for a ban on smoking and consuming cannabis in public places in New York as the legal marketplace is taking hold. The measure, backed by state Sen. George Borrello and Assemblyman Michael Novakhov, would allow local governments to put local laws in

It’s the Empire Baked. Some 2.7 million New Yorkers enjoy marijuana at least once a month, state cannabis regulators revealed Wednesday, as they continue to push toward a robust, legal marketplace for the green goods. “There is a large and established market,” said John Kagia, the state Office of

OJ Barker bought a House of Sacci ball cap, Empire cannabis gummies, Pound Town pre-rolled joints and cannabis flower on Tuesday. That purchase made history. The Buffalo resident was the first person to buy recreational marijuana from a state-licensed dispensary in Western New York. “This is going

New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal urged the Office of Cannabis Management to take action on unlicensed dispensaries. A New York state senator wrote a letter to the state’s Office of Cannabis Management, urging leadership to engage in “aggressive action” on unlicensed cannabis retailers after

In advance of Wednesday’s meeting of the Cannabis Control Board, a member of CANY, the Cannabis Association of New York, told Capital Tonight that decisions by the state are hurting the very people the new recreational marijuana law is supposed to help. CANY is an industry association that

At Empire Cannabis Clubs in Chelsea, an unlicensed cannabis dispensary, law enforcement agents on Wednesday made their way inside the store, seized product and handcuffed one of its owners. During a simultaneous raid at the store’s Lower East Side location, co-founder Lenore Elfand was arrested

I feel the lavender haze creepin’ up on me. The Stoned Swifties have reason to celebrate. On Tuesday night in New York City, Taylor Swift attended a party hosted by the iconic musician Questlove of The Roots. Given that Swift is the Bob Dylan of our era when it comes to songwriting skills, of course

As New York's cannabis industry continues to evolve, law enforcement faces a new challenge: people driving high. Smoking cannabis before or while driving is illegal with similar punishments to driving under the influence of alcohol. If you drive drunk and an officer pulls you over, they can perform

Empire Cannabis Club is the target of stepped-up state efforts to crack down on unlicensed shops. 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

A New York jury has found that the city of Amsterdam discriminated against a medical cannabis patient when he was fired for failing a random drug screening. The city of Amsterdam, New York owes nearly $200,000 after firing a medical marijuana patient for failing a drug screening for cannabis, a jury