Last Thursday, the Office of Cannabis Management announced that New York State had begun accepting applications for the first recreational cannabis dispensary licenses.
The first legal adult-use retail dispensaries will be run by those impacted by the prohibition of cannabis. Qualifying business applicants must have a conviction for a marijuana-related offense or have a parent, legal guardian, child, spouse or dependent with one in New York.
One Ozone Park man has already submitted one application and is working on a second, with hopes of eventually opening a dispensary in Queens.
“My business partner and I are both justice-involved and we both meet the criteria,” said Jeremy Rivera, a 38-year-old from Ozone Park.
“Kush Culture is me 51 percent, him 49 and then Gourmet Buds is him 51 percent me 49,” he told the Chronicle this week.
Rivera spent eight years in prison for nonviolent crimes, two of which were drug-related.
Now, he owns a construction-consulting company where he teaches OSHA and city buildings regulations and audits job sites for construction-safety compliance.
“I am and always have been ambitious. Even when I was in the streets and I was dealing drugs, I was very ambitious.”
His business experience helps him check off the box from the state that requires applicants have experience owning and operating a “qualifying” business that has been profitable for at least two years.
His business partner owns a deli in Lindenhurst, LI.
Although Rivera is a Queens guy through and through, he is not sure he will be able to open the dispensary here.
“I’m not getting really good responses from the communities in Queens,” he said.
“I’d love to open a dispensary here, but I don’t know. It seems like I’m getting a lot of conservative views on this.”
He specifically wanted to open up a shop in Ozone Park but was told by community leaders that it might not be “the right place.”
13 comments:
Sounds like QC is advertising for Pot Shops.
Open up a liquor store instead.
Oh great, just like the Netherlands.
Whats next require banks to exclusively hire new employees that are black with at least one armed robbery conviction?
How the hell are they to tell who's driving under the influence and who is not if this shit stays in the blood, lings and liver for 30 days.
Car insurance is gonna double, alot of innocent people dead.
This was a stupid rushed idea, this shit also stinks and pollutes the air. I can smell the hip shits smoking it 3 doors away and they are INSIDE the house.
Cigars and cigarettes dont do this, this weed smoke smells like piss-shit cocktail, thick and acrid like grease fire. Its poison, I researched it and could find no reason why they just dispense THC or CBD pills.
Every person I know who smokes weed is stoned, lazy and stupid.
Why does the New York government want a good 1/2 the population this way ?
There are so many shops in Queens selling California stuff already, not sure how lucrative this will be
They Call It Dope For A Reason !
I can't Imagine at this point living in a Democrat run city,county,or state.
Feel sorry for the good New Yorkers who can't afford to escape those Marxist tyrants who run NYC.
There goes the neighborhood!!!!
If smoking cigarettes causes cancer what diseases will smoking pot cause? I am looking forward to the medical studies and the lawsuits like the ones against Tobacco companies
Pretty soon HRA will dole out weed stamps for your free monthly ration
to keep the average Joe stupid, stoned and stinking of that shite.If the stench sticks to your shirt what is it doing to your lungs? Bread, circuses and weed. Causes psychosis in teenagers.
Who are these community leaders in Ozone park? Petie, Pauline, Sal and Jimmie Jackhammer?
Marijuana, toxoplasmosis and lysergic fungus are known to cause schizophrenia (hearing voices, talking to buildings, seeing ghosts).
Communists trying to put a stop to this man’s freedoms and the free market economy.
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