Hopeless

[equinox]

The business environment in NYS is so bad (How bad is it?), that businesses that sell marijuana can't make it. LOL. How is that even possible? EVERYTHING the state touches turns to crap. That guy who works the West Side is doing a bang-up trade.

[WNYresident]

What happened that prompted you to post this?

NYS is not good for business unless you are politically connected or in a "program" that others have their hands in. Like the start up ny program and IDA's.

[WNYresident]

Medical marijuana business in New York is a bust so far

The state health commissioner last year declared New York’s medical marijuana program a success.

But the five companies that the state selected in 2015 to get marijuana into the hands of people suffering from debilitating and sometimes terminal diseases such as cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis tell a different story.

“Our company is not close to break-even yet,’’ said Ari Hoffnung, president of Vireo Health of New York, which has a marijuana-growing facility in Fulton County and dispenses its products in two downstate and two upstate locations. “And based on my understanding, no one has made a dime here in New York.’’

http://buffalonews.com/2017/03/12/me...ime=1489327710

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

NYS gonna NYS



Among the 23 states that now allow some form of legal weed, New York's law is among the most restrictive. Only a handful of serious conditions qualify for a prescription, and so far there are only 71 patients in the entire state. The patients are only allowed to use tinctures and oils, which can be vaporized, inhaled, or consumed orally in capsules. Smoking or growing marijuana is still strictly forbidden.

New York's law only allows people with "severe debilitating or life threatening conditions" to obtain weed extracts. The qualifying conditions are cancer, HIV/AIDS, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, intractable spasticity from spinal cord damage, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, nerve damage, and Huntington's disease. State officials are still deciding whether to add Alzheimer's, muscular dystrophy, dystonia, PTSD, and rheumatoid arthritis to the list.

Karen O'Keefe, director of state policies at the Marijuana Policy Project, pointed out that the majority of data on the palliative effects of marijuana comes from examining the effects of smoking dried buds, rather than consuming it in the forms allowed under New York's law. She also noted that pot legalization has been shown to correspond with a decline in the number of opiate overdoses.


https://news.vice.com/article/how-ne...ical-marijuana

[equinox]

We are the most liberal state in the country. How do the elitists justify their hypocrisy? Remember. The ruling class is the Hippies. Marijuana was their life. What happened to them? The one good thing they could have done for society, they couldn't even pull off. Amazing. Shameful. Hypocrites.

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

We are the most liberal state in the country.

The reasons here are the same for the lack of uber....

[Save Us]

We are the most liberal state in the country. How do the elitists justify their hypocrisy? Remember. The ruling class is the Hippies. Marijuana was their life. What happened to them? The one good thing they could have done for society, they couldn't even pull off. Amazing. Shameful. Hypocrites.

Yes liberal with tax dollars to people on both sides of the government nipple. The leftist mantra is redistribution. Eventually states like NY and California will learn that socialism fails everytime. It succeeds for a period of time then collapses under its own weight. As Ben Shapiro states we need equality of opportunity not outcome.

[ILOVEDNY]

We are the most liberal state in the country. How do the elitists justify their hypocrisy? Remember. The ruling class is the Hippies. Marijuana was their life. What happened to them? The one good thing they could have done for society, they couldn't even pull off. Amazing. Shameful. Hypocrites.

Because some of those "hippie" elitists have grow operations in their attics.
Cam make some nice cash scratch that way.

[Genoobie]

Yes liberal with tax dollars to people on both sides of the government nipple. The leftist mantra is redistribution. Eventually states like NY and California will learn that socialism fails everytime. It succeeds for a period of time then collapses under its own weight. As Ben Shapiro states we need equality of opportunity not outcome.

Yes, while incarceration for minor drugs offenses and keeping a DEA healthy and well-fed (typically Republican and allegedly non-socialist mantras) along with the associated judicial and corrections have no stake in the game. When will conservatives who tout big military or law enforcement finally consider this spending a form of socialism and/or welfare?

[Save Us]

Yes, while incarceration for minor drugs offenses and keeping a DEA healthy and well-fed (typically Republican and allegedly non-socialist mantras) along with the associated judicial and corrections have no stake in the game. When will conservatives who tout big military or law enforcement finally consider this spending a form of socialism and/or welfare?

I agree with the nonsense of incarceration for minor drug offenses.. but

Republicans are the tax and spend party wanting more and more government? I have no problem with a strong military and getting other countries in the world to share the burden.

Capitalism is how things are paid for. Socialism means you get crap because you are breathing. I hope you aren't teaching our kids leftist garbage.