This Aug. 22, 2019, file picture exhibits medical marijuana vegetation being grown earlier than flowering throughout a media tour of the Curaleaf medical hashish cultivation and processing facility in Ravena, N.Y. New Yorkers can now possess as much as 3 ounces of hashish below a legalization invoice signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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The state’s Workplace of Hashish Administration launched knowledge final week on the municipalities that opted out of permitting gross sales.
Statewide, 34% of all municipalities opted out of each dispensaries and on-site consumption. Simply 10% of cities did, whereas 29% of villages and 39% of cities did so.
In keeping with a listing compiled by the workplace, many of the municipalities in Chautauqua County opted out. Nevertheless, mirroring the statewide pattern, neither of its cities — Dunkirk and Jamestown — did.
Different localities within the county that didn’t decide out embody the villages of Fredonia, Sherman and Westfield, and the cities of Arkwright, Dunkirk, Pomfret and Westfield.
The village of Cassadaga and city of Mina opted out of on-site consumption factors, however not retail dispensaries.
The state’s Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act gave municipalities till Dec. 31 to decide out. The act of opting out required native legal guidelines and was principally a request to the state Hashish Management Board that it not put in any gross sales websites.
Municipalities that opted out of marijuana gross sales can decide in at any time. Possession and use of hashish by adults aged 21 and over can’t be prohibited.
