Unlicensed shops openly selling marijuana in NYC

Big Chief in Brooklyn is one of many stores and dispensaries in New York City selling cannabis products without a license. The owners say they have applied for one and are waiting to hear. The state’s Office of Cannabis Management said these businesses are breaking the law.

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49 Comments

  1. Groot on August 25, 2023 at 11:23 pm

    These guys just tryna do better they’re not hurting anyone still government gonna piss tax money away making guys like this life hard



  2. BIOÑCO BRŪÑ on August 25, 2023 at 11:26 pm

    Sell, it to yourself first with an Biohazard lablie.



  3. AzMadeClutch on August 25, 2023 at 11:26 pm

    Love how the first thing he said was there was no tax



  4. Joseph Hartwell on August 25, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    They should already be paying taxes on the mechandise they are selling government just dint like people getting free presents



  5. Hotboy Red on August 25, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    They dealing Reggie up in that store that not in even no loud Negro



  6. Anthony Arabia on August 25, 2023 at 11:29 pm

    Lmao this was 6 months ago and still no enforcement ever



  7. Meal prep on August 25, 2023 at 11:30 pm

    This makes zero sense the United States nickname is hypocrisy



  8. Joseph Hartwell on August 25, 2023 at 11:30 pm

    You probably should worry more about unlicensed thigs carrying guns and phyntenal



  9. Susan Nehama on August 25, 2023 at 11:32 pm

    They just opened up one around the corner from us in the Bronx. It’s right next to the discount liquor store so I am sure they will boost that business.



  10. Cha'Nell Haze on August 25, 2023 at 11:33 pm

    They so greeedy TAXES!. THIS IS THE ONLY REASON WHY THEY MADE IT LEGALTHEY DONT CARE ABOUT HEALTH BENEFITS ITS ABOUT MONEY!



  11. Kevin Lane 14 on August 25, 2023 at 11:36 pm

    They look like they know what they are selling. The Habibi’s don’t know crap and when you walk in they just hand you anything. They don’t know THC levels. They don’t know sativa from indica. Just a bunch of money hungry rude freaks.



  12. Kevin Houck on August 25, 2023 at 11:36 pm

    Shut up Brandon!! Aka Karen



  13. Pang Vang on August 25, 2023 at 11:38 pm

    I guess the government are legal weed dealer lol



  14. Prawnstar on August 25, 2023 at 11:38 pm

    But they won’t arrest anyone they know are unlicensed making licensed retailers fail



  15. Police sai Police on August 25, 2023 at 11:39 pm

    Hi bro



  16. Onion Control on August 25, 2023 at 11:40 pm

    Assuming they’re selling clean pot who cares.



  17. Backup in the Day on August 25, 2023 at 11:43 pm

    Better to stay in the decriminalise area and not fully legalise.. Legalisation will not be a good thing,



  18. Foomanlol on August 25, 2023 at 11:43 pm

    $200,000 every 2 years for license. You pay $210,000 to apply and if you don’t get it they only refund $200,000. No wonder people will just keep doing it without a license.



  19. Mai Kahk on August 25, 2023 at 11:44 pm

    Weed looks like trash in NY



  20. K-dog805 on August 25, 2023 at 11:45 pm

    😂😂😂😂 NY Weed is Dirt 😂😂😂😂



  21. Mike Woo on August 25, 2023 at 11:46 pm

    This line is tough lol 0:00



  22. Pursues on August 25, 2023 at 11:48 pm

    Who doesn’t pay taxes ? The small stores or the corporate ?



  23. Joseph Hartwell on August 25, 2023 at 11:49 pm

    Tell it like it is government dont like anyone to have nothing without them being able to get something



  24. Vegas Holiday on August 25, 2023 at 11:53 pm

    Silly Saltines just mad they’re getting $$$ and the racist system isn’t getting a cut BLK MRKT always gonna thrive



  25. Amanda Oakhart on August 25, 2023 at 11:56 pm

    These politicians are fools. Getting a license is rigged against them. They are only for rich corporations who have 50,000$ just to get a chance for a license in a rigged lottery system.

    They don’t want small businesses to have licenses, just the big companies with money that the state can control



  26. Backup in the Day on August 25, 2023 at 11:57 pm

    Simple Question : If they were selling without a licence why would they agree to appear on national television!!???
    Another simple Question : What harm is this causing?



  27. Daryl Smioth on August 25, 2023 at 11:57 pm

    "The whole point of legalization is to have legal stores that are TAXED" and that right there buddy opens your state up to a massive black market of weed sales. The black market is thriving in Calif.



  28. Rich P. on August 25, 2023 at 11:58 pm

    “That are taxed…” that’s all they fucking care about is the money.



  29. DJ Tá'sawennaté:ken on August 25, 2023 at 11:58 pm

    The reason why the renting the store friends first is because they know they’re going to be denied the license to sell because this is what’s been happening The government in New York is only allowing certain people they choose to run businesses and those people are people who give the government money and everything from their sales you know tax money That’s all this is about taxation



  30. Christopher Simpson on August 26, 2023 at 12:01 am

    Bro why does our shitty government try to tax us on everything we do originally this shit needs to stop



  31. Humble Cultivations on August 26, 2023 at 12:02 am

    So that man is a “weed dealer” until he gives your scummy ass tax money ? Then he’s a shop owner? Pathetic. Fuck outta here. Get it in blood 🩸



  32. abraham m on August 26, 2023 at 12:03 am

    New York: we dont really care that they are selling marijuana, we just care that we are not recieving our cut



  33. Rose Phoenix on August 26, 2023 at 12:06 am

    Did you know that I smoking weeds that out of it to mess up of your your children’s your daughter’s your family members and including that many of your sons and daughters that I make friends together or smoking weed that it how to say this smoke is very cool anyway that it is for joining up over to making new friends but not true anyway it’s like a let me say this to all of you right now many of your children that I smoked weed that I in the Park parking lot of any location quiet definition and and oh so that I could give you of a stroke not to mention of your clothes going to get stink your breath is stinks your gummies your teeth is going to be wet mess it up anyway and not to mention that of your well how do you say this your 10 skills that I that you smoke too much of weed is also could break that another system better into your brain it’s not good for them it is not good that it for a man and woman that our people are still smoking weed that our of it any direction and even are not smoking with you could just still smell that letter from transportation like the bus and the train



  34. PutinHuylo on August 26, 2023 at 12:07 am

    The county is certainly going to the wrong direction since it legalized the drug. In 30 years or so there won’t be any heath man left. Stalin dictator once said, the United States is going to destroy itself from within. Drugs will definitely do that mark my words



  35. Shadow Star on August 26, 2023 at 12:08 am

    Y’all didn’t grease the gears, line pockets and pay extortion… I mean taxes and licenses. Weed is making peoples skin fall off great job.



  36. Sharon Trotter on August 26, 2023 at 12:08 am

    So when the sellers are Black and trying to operate legally, they are called "weed dealers"! But the rest who are not Black and dont have a license are what…….?? Yeah see the problem.



  37. Alfred B Newman on August 26, 2023 at 12:09 am

    Do all dispensaries charge you like an ATM to avoid income tax. Here in Massachusetts they do.



  38. Thomas Brooks on August 26, 2023 at 12:10 am

    Good for them



  39. hassan brown on August 26, 2023 at 12:11 am

    If that shix CBD I don’t want it 😅 Ant’t gettin nothin out of me y’all can keep y’all taxes 😂🎉



  40. WarCrimeExpert on August 26, 2023 at 12:13 am

    If it ain’t taxed, it’s illegal 🤷🤷



  41. burd on August 26, 2023 at 12:14 am

    Who cares?



  42. mark Sage on August 26, 2023 at 12:14 am

    The State needs to mind their own dam business. People need to start standing up and stop tolerating laws and police. Kick the State out of N. Y.



  43. Hector Morales on August 26, 2023 at 12:15 am

    I never ask to be on camara they put me with out my concern at all



  44. Jesse Judah on August 26, 2023 at 12:18 am

    the United States of America is going to pot?!



  45. sacareaPYRO on August 26, 2023 at 12:19 am

    ohh who cares you only regulate it to make money that’s all the government even cares about if they can’t get their part they won’t allow it simple as that and they capone these clubs with taxes they need to ban cigarettes and get rid of that sht not weed



  46. Ron Lewis on August 26, 2023 at 12:19 am

    Hey *CLONEBILLZ10* Thru T£L£GRA// I just wanted to say a huge thanks for the *CANNABIS* my nephew loved them, but more importantly the Lemon Cherry Gelato… they are amazing!!! Thank you for prompt delivery…….



  47. Shubham Rajpurohit on August 26, 2023 at 12:20 am

    even in india , maravona is one big problem . . . . we all indians want to smoke maravona in india legally , but only USA is lucky .



  48. Rose Phoenix on August 26, 2023 at 12:20 am

    Everyone for New Yorkers right now tell somebody that I have a stop smoking weed you live apartment from downstairs upstairs for left Divide from the next block in the founder of the apartment or the apartment right next to it it’s a left the other Corner anyway for both sides because you’re always you open your window and then why you won’t be so stink right there but you know what your woman was so refreshing clean and that you can smell weed right there in your room but the problem is that if you don’t smoke weed but there’s somewhere smoke weed from the outside in the streets especially that to everyone I want you to learn something about it that carry a handgun and make sure that our other you’ll be proud of it of it be happy for it especially that it from your future is going to get well if you stop smoking stop smelling and tell your children son and daughters gotaga is smoke weed a funny friends or smoke weed out of one day Cousin Turf remembers anyway I want to say this was telling the truth about it everyone please do not do smoking anyway it is not good for you



  49. timesghost on August 26, 2023 at 12:21 am

    Racist rules to keep rich whites ahead of the game.