NYC Has Padlocked More Than 750 Unlicensed Cannabis Stores, Adams Says

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In the three months since the state gave New York City the power to shutter unlicensed cannabis stores, local law enforcement has sealed stores in 779 locations, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.

Landlords whose properties were sealed now have to go through the process of getting them unsealed, Cole Schotz member attorney Robert DiPisa, who specializes in cannabis law, told Bisnow. While some landlords may simply not have known what their tenants were doing in the properties, he said, others were fully aware but took the gamble on being able to command higher rents. 

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