The Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (“MRTA”) provides towns, villages, and cities an opportunity to opt out of allowing retail dispensaries and on-site consumption licensees to operate within ...

"Decades after New York decriminalized marijuana possession, the state has finally chosen to legalize the production and sale of cannabis. Years of hard work and struggle by activists and victims of ...

The MRTA was signed on March 31, 2021, by former-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. It allowed for adults over the age of 21 to use cannabis recreationally, whereas before, it could only be obtained and used for ...

A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the state's marijuana regulators to temporarily block the issuing of new dispensary licenses. A court injunction was approved on Monday, August 7, in ...

Andrew Blasi, shareholder with Shapiro, Blasi, Wasserman & Hermann. During the last 30 to 40 years, exponential population growth and concomitant community development has occurred throughout the ...