Women Grow and Drug Policy Alliance Partner for New York State Women in Cannabis Lobby Day
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Women in Cannabis Lobby Day Brings Together Directly Impacted Women, Cannabis Industry Leaders, Mothers, Medical Marijuana Patients to Mobilize for Legalization that Prioritizes Women and Minority Owned Businesses.
Women leaders from over 20 NY organizations demand legislators pass a comprehensive cannabis legalization that includes provisions of accessible entry points, priority to social equity licensing, small business loans, and an incubator program. ALBANY, N.Y. (PRWEB) March 08, 2021 On Monday, March 8th, International Women’s Day, Drug Policy Alliance and Women Grow partner to bring women advocates and business leaders across all sectors of the cannabis landscape together in New York, joining virtually to bring attention to the need for more women and people of color to have opportunities to particip
On Saturday, New York lawmakers published an updated version of a bill to legalize adult-use cannabis after weeks of negotiation. Lawmakers voted to pass the legislation on Tuesday and on Wednesday morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law.
Legalization means there will be huge changes to the state s current cannabis landscape. Analysts at Stifel said they expect adult-use cannabis sales to start in late 2022, and that the state s market could exceed $5 billion.
Ten cannabis companies currently operate in New York s medical marijuana market. Nine of them are owned by large companies that sell cannabis in several US states, which are called multistate operators or MSOs. One is independent and operates in New York alone.
How Medical Marijuana Company Etain Is Increasing Access to Plant-Based Care Medical marijuana has an exclusive reputation, but Hillary Peckham thinks it s high time to send it packing. There s such a large population that could benefit from cannabis, says Peckham, who is the COO of Etain, the Westchester-based medical marijuana company she founded with her mother Amy and sister Keeley. They just don t know how accessible it actually is, she says. While Peckham acknowledges New York State s medical marijuana program was pretty restrictive when it launched in 2015, it now includes broader categories like chronic pain, which covers symptoms like constant knee or low back pain and migraines. Marijuana is also an alternative for those who are turned off to more standard pharmaceuticals that might have negative impacts on their health, she says.
The greenhouse at The Pass in Sheffield, Massachussets, a vertically integrated growhouse and dispensary. As cannabis increasingly becomes available nationwide for both medical and recreational use, New York State, where the plant is currently decriminalized, is likely to be among the next states to join one of the least understood, and at times controversial, socioeconomic booms of the century to date legal cannabis. But how this landscape will appear, and what New Yorkers can come to expect from legalized cannabis should it occur, is difficult to predict. Each state has its own set of regulations, few of which are universally consistent. However, with nationwide legalization entering the second half of its first decade, and the recent passing of New York Senate Bill S6184A, defining the growth and distribution of industrial hemp in the state, patterns and expectations are beginning to emerge that New Yorkers can learn from.