Queens BP hosts talk on cannabis legalization
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“For far too long marijuana has been a barrier to employment, housing and education for individuals in communities already suffering from inequality.”
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Miller introduces marijuana equity bill
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“Just legalizing marijuana doesn't fix the problem.”
Read MoreQueens DA moves to vacate thousands of marijuana cases
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“For decades our clients have shouldered the brunt of marijuana prohibition, losing years of their lives ensnared in the criminal legal system and denied meaningful employment, housing and other opportunities.”
Cuomo says New York will legalize weed, sports betting in 2021
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More than 3/4 of New Yorkers arrested for low-level weed offenses were Black or Latino in 2020.
Read MoreLegalize It: State Bar calls on Albany to end weed prohibition
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Attorneys file 420 motion.
Read MoreWeed arrest disparities persist across Queens police precincts
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Though the NYPD does not report racial or ethnic arrest data by precinct, there are persistent disparities in arrest totals across the borough’s 16 precincts.
Read MoreNearly every single person arrested for weed in NYC this year was black or Latinx
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Black and Latinx New Yorkers accounted for 94 percent of all low-level marijuana arrests in New York City during the first six months of the year.
Read MoreSoutheast Queens leaders to screen marijuana legalization doc
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Leroy Comrie and Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman host a screening of the Netflix Documentary “Grass is Greener.”
Read MoreQueens leads NYC in marijuana cases, public defender data finds
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Queens accounts for more low-level weed prosecutions than Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island combined.
Read MoreNets D'Angelo Russell Issued Summons for Marijuana at LGA
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The Nets said in a statement they "have been made aware of the situation" and "are in the process of gathering more information at this time."
Read MoreOp-ed: Arresting people for THC oil undermines justice reform
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“Loopholes that undermine progressive policy should not stand,” Councilmember Rory Lancman writes in an Eagle op-ed.
Read MoreA Medical Marijuana Joint Is About to Open in Briarwood
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The store will sell a variety of cannabis products available as permitted by New York State regulations, such as vape cartridges, tinctures and capsules.
Read MoreKatz Kicks Off DA Campaign With Bail, Weed Reform Proposals
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Katz pledged to stop prosecuting low level marijuana possession and end cash bail on misdemeanors, though she stopped short of saying she would end cash bail on all offenses.
Read MoreGov’s Next Pot Stop Is in Jamaica Monday
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Everybody’s doing it — or at least it seems that way. And now New York could be the next state to legalize marijuana. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s marijuana listening tour makes a stop at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center, located at 153-10 Jamaica Ave. in Jamaica today from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Read MoreBrooklyn DA Could Erase 20,000 Pot Convictions, Brown Will ‘Review’
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Tens of thousands of low-level marijuana convictions could be erased with the approval of Brooklyn’s top prosecutor, under a new plan for wiping records clean of offenses that are no longer prosecuted in the borough.
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