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Join NY Cannabis Insider for our next full-day conference on Sept. 21 at the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery in Buffalo.
Happy weekend, everyone.
Nearly two years after New York’s Cannabis Control Board held their first meeting, members approved final regulations for the state’s cannabis industry. Let’s take a look at NY Cannabis Insider’s coverage of this major milestone, and the other stories we covered this week.
The CCB on Tuesday unanimously approved 344 pages of rules and regulations, which will allow businesses applying for cannabis licenses – including cultivator, processor, distributor, microbusiness and retail dispensary – to start submitting documents on Oct. 4.
Board members passed the regulatory package without debate. A public comment period at the end of Tuesday’s meeting lasted nearly two hours, as licensed growers, processors, retailers and other stakeholders aired concerns, criticisms and defenses of both the newly approved rules and how state cannabis regulators have handled New York’s legal weed rollout.
We finalized the details on NY Cannabis Insider’s first-ever Buffalo conference. We’re hosting this event at Pearl Street Grill & Brewery in Buffalo on Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Details and tickets available here.
The conference will focus on the “state of the industry” discussion from several key stakeholder perspectives, such as cultivators, processors, retailers, politicians, attorneys, and medical operators. It will also host Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes on a panel, along with a keynote address by Andrew DeAngelo, a strategic advisor to the global cannabis industry and the co-founder of Harborside, the Last Prisoner Project, and the California Cannabis Industry Association.
Lightning-round business planning consultations will be available for attendees, in addition to networking opportunities, lunch, happy hour and more. Business owners and CAURD license holders are eligible for half-price tickets by entering the discount code 50PERCENT during registration.
Paula Collins, a tax attorney dedicated to the cannabis industry, contributed a column this week in which she lays out some dilemmas New York cannabis regulators will have to confront before the general cannabis business license application period starts next month.
In a guest column, Mack Hueber, president of cannabis beverage company ayrloom, argued against a ban on flavored vapes.
“The last thing New York’s cannabis entrepreneurs need are more flaming hoops to jump through, like a vape flavor ban that, as proposed, would apply to flavors such as ice cream or gelato, vanilla, cereal, candy, chocolate, dessert, concept flavors, and soda including any strain names that might fall into this category,” Hueber writes.
Continuing our “NY’s women in cannabis” series, we ran a profile on Holly Hager, co-founder and COO of House of Puff, a NYC-based boutique that “makes luxury smoking accessories for the modern woman.”
Have a great weekend everyone, we’ll be back with plenty more next week, and hope to see you at our event in Buffalo on Thursday!