New York state trying to crack down on unlicensed marijuana vendors

New York state legalized recreational marijuana last year but has yet to allow licensed dispensaries to sell it beyond medical use. As CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reports, that hasn’t stopped all kinds of unlicensed vendors from popping up all over the city, and now the state is trying to crack down.

50 Comments

  1. mike on September 21, 2022 at 5:25 am

    That’s why when it rains it pours God is disgusted how the people are running this



  2. Eddie V on September 21, 2022 at 5:26 am

    What it looks like is that they trying to go back and illegalize some parts of it because the State is not making any money and even when they start opening the ppl are still going to the streets regardless. The streets for what they saying is way cheaper.



  3. C. H. on September 21, 2022 at 5:26 am

    Does NYS think 9M+ New yorkers are waiting for licensed dealers?



  4. Kyle Swicker on September 21, 2022 at 5:27 am

    Smh the stores should be shut down the product seized along with their cash and accounts. And they should be banned from future licenses.



  5. Stefanie Dejesus on September 21, 2022 at 5:27 am

    It’s weed bro!!! Worry about the criminals!! Not people who smoke weed frfr



  6. Leonardo Granić-Flores on September 21, 2022 at 5:27 am

    damn new york got weed trucks lol wth



  7. danp p on September 21, 2022 at 5:27 am

    It’s even more funny in the same state where you need an FFL license to sell guns whoops look how many criminals are breaking the law imagine if law abiding citizens got the break the same crimes as these criminals I guess that would be equality or would that be crimes against people



  8. Axetruth on September 21, 2022 at 5:31 am

    Marijuana is NOT the problem… its crack, meth, heroine, & cocaine



  9. Davis Davis on September 21, 2022 at 5:34 am

    the state can find something else to do.



  10. Sonia PGMB on September 21, 2022 at 5:35 am

    Did they call it reefer



  11. Willie Bateman on September 21, 2022 at 5:36 am

    Sinners are sinners nuts as he’ll keep god’s laws my peeps πŸ’ͺ🏾



  12. Plforeal on September 21, 2022 at 5:38 am

    Oh please the illegal weed product has been perfectly fine without the city making sure it’s allegedly safe weed. Lady give me a break.



  13. TheEvilOyo on September 21, 2022 at 5:38 am

    worry about violent crime



  14. bronxmosthated1 on September 21, 2022 at 5:40 am

    Government create the most violence against its own citizens it Has a monopoly on it why can’t we care how other live and how we live in relationships to others.if I care that you live in a home and eat food that wasn’tΒ  Slaved products is in the best interest of all of us monetary money is fake made by the banks and government so why cant we do the right thing In the age of cell phones I don’t understand why we need a representative government.GreatΒ  Documentary I hope to see about theΒ  Legalisation of all drugs and prostitution we don’t need governmentΒ  Housing is a human/civil right. A system in which access to a human/civil rights is subject to exchange is immoral/unjust. Rent is essentially payment for access to housing. Therefore, rent is immoral/unjust Landlording (if you have any sense of human decency) is not okay.
    No matter how "nice" you would be to tenants, no matter how much of "a deal" you cut tenants, you are effectively leveraging a person’s fundamental need for shelter and survival so that YOU may personally profit. This is exploitative. Period.
    I’m sure there are a few very rare hypothetical situations someone could bring up to try and challenge how unethical it is to be a landlord, but just the fact that they would have to come up with these very unlikely abstract situations should already tell you more than you need to know.
    Also, I would like to point out that, historically, virtually every socialist revolution/uprising has to some degree contained land reforms that included at least stripping landlords of their property, and often times the outright execution of the landlords themselves.
    Something so universal as that doesn’t happen without warrent.
    I hope this doesn’t come off as a personal attack towards you, cuz that’s not what I’m trying to do, I’m sure you yourself are a cool person, but how aware you are of fucking people over, wouldn’t change the fact that you’re fucking people over.Why can’t every human live in peace. Every human onΒ  PlanetΒ  should have the same rights



  15. wuhh huhh on September 21, 2022 at 5:41 am

    They lacing a whole lot of shihhhhhhh…
    Stick with one πŸ”Œ . Your regular πŸ”Œ
    Least you know, straight from who you got it.



  16. BIGPUMP on September 21, 2022 at 5:43 am

    Lol thats a lie they not cracking down on shit lol everybody smoking and selling weed



  17. Tom on September 21, 2022 at 5:44 am

    If New York government managed to pry their heads out of their asses and stopped making all these crazy regulations/taxes for growers/dispensaries and outrageous taxes for the customers maybe they’d be able to slow bootleg weed.



  18. Chloe Stewart on September 21, 2022 at 5:44 am

    NY want their tax money. Pay me to do you!



  19. Rusty Shakleford on September 21, 2022 at 5:45 am

    These drug dealers need to be hauled off to jail for selling this poison to our kids without paying their cut to the government. Shame on them. All the other drug dealers pay there taxes so why can’t these weed heads pay there fair share?



  20. Ricardo Hamilton Jr on September 21, 2022 at 5:48 am


  21. Davis Davis on September 21, 2022 at 5:49 am

    how about we control the violence



  22. Brian Painten on September 21, 2022 at 5:49 am

    More useless laws. How about enforcing ones we already have on the books.



  23. Muaythai Saro on September 21, 2022 at 5:49 am

    Wtf weed busses yo we need this Cali wtf we is doing it wrong



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  25. beck on September 21, 2022 at 5:52 am

    i bet not one of them have a job but they have money for weed crazy



  26. Isaac Avila on September 21, 2022 at 5:53 am

    So what we’ve learned is that weed will only ever be conditionally legal (as long as it is profitable) even though racist policies are the cause for weed’s illegality in the first place



  27. skiddles on September 21, 2022 at 5:57 am

    rumor has it that a rich, old fat white man jumps up out of his sleep whenever a minority makes a weed sale he wasn’t involved in.



  28. DIV_SHROOMS on Instagram sells psychedelic stuffs on September 21, 2022 at 5:57 am

    ☝️☝️he sells weed, LSD, bars, shrooms, all trippy stuffs, very reliable, you can order from him



  29. perry walker on September 21, 2022 at 5:59 am

    This story is filled with many contributing members of society they look like such up-standing citizens



  30. John Dillenger on September 21, 2022 at 5:59 am

    And who will this affect the most blacks and browns



  31. JIMBO on September 21, 2022 at 6:01 am

    Don’t they have enough shootings,robberies and assaults to worry about??? Which they’re not doing well at preventing



  32. Maenad on September 21, 2022 at 6:02 am

    That β€œ420 everyday” guy genuinely made me smile. Infectious happiness?



  33. Bill bick on September 21, 2022 at 6:06 am

    Sounds right I can do it but you can’t



  34. Know_the_Ledge on September 21, 2022 at 6:06 am

    Only time it becomes a problem is when uncle Sam doesn’t get his tax money.. They care less about what u got going on



  35. John Reese on September 21, 2022 at 6:07 am

    πŸ€£πŸ‘πŸ’―πŸ€‘show , business as usual.



  36. balle 733 on September 21, 2022 at 6:08 am

    This is why crime and mental insanity quadrupled in the city. SMH.



  37. mike on September 21, 2022 at 6:09 am

    Marijuana is legal right but you have to give the people in charge a cut so they can issue you permission it’s all about money so sad



  38. Frank bazooka on September 21, 2022 at 6:10 am

    Yep pot is 100% legal and healthy.



  39. Scab Salad on September 21, 2022 at 6:10 am

    she got two pre rolls for 10$, that is a good deal. Let street vendor sell, I’m not bothered by them. The government just want a cut of your earning in taxes.



  40. Mike mike on September 21, 2022 at 6:11 am

    She said β€œwell end up like other states like the Wild West” LMAO has she not seen the news? Nyc is the Wild West πŸ€£πŸ˜‚



  41. Tim Freckman on September 21, 2022 at 6:15 am

    So it’s only legal if it’s the tyrants weed? Yep, this is just what NYC needed!



  42. Shawn Brooks on September 21, 2022 at 6:15 am

    😭😭😭😭 they just trying to eat but of course the people that don’t know about the market want to capitalize off the people butchers still tag them for something legal.



  43. Leland T Snyder on September 21, 2022 at 6:16 am

    The royal scam was, that legalization was sold on the fact that it was all about keeping black and brown youth out of prison.

    And now it’s about protecting the corporate narco market. I e. ….

    It’s about corporate profits and protecting that profit…

    So it will put as many street dealers as it can behind bars for a long time, more than before….

    Because before it was about the people…
    Now it’s about corporate profits.



  44. Robert Nussberger on September 21, 2022 at 6:18 am

    Legalization is to keep people asleep so they don’t notice how corrupt their government is and to keep them in under control. That’s why it’s being promoted to minorities to keep them asleep and content



  45. Heavinhell Andearth on September 21, 2022 at 6:20 am

    North west south east go north Sacramento California apostlic God and the devil and Jesus Christ name amen



  46. TheBlackLotusGaming on September 21, 2022 at 6:21 am

    I thought weed was legal to grow in New York state. I think the news is not informed . its legal for adults to grow 10 plants



  47. Sjdjs Ksjsjsjsks on September 21, 2022 at 6:21 am

    Ban them. Bunch of criminals with attitude when you don’t buy



  48. tourist risk on September 21, 2022 at 6:24 am

    Potheads smoke weed everyday .
    They want to get high .
    Their whole day revoles around smoking pot. Thats what they look foward to. From they get up to the the time they go to sleep.
    Smoking dope . Getting high .
    Drugs and getting high .
    Complete Losers .!!



  49. Axetruth on September 21, 2022 at 6:24 am

    NYC need to crack down on illegal GUNS & GANG VIOLENCE …. weed is not killing people…. liberalism is a mental disorder



  50. Shawn Brooks on September 21, 2022 at 6:24 am

    Harassment