

They’ve sold millions of units, and have been around for more than a decade. “Like any state cannabis market, it will take two years of execution against the current strategy to get right,” said Collin Lam, vice president of commercial growth for PAX, one of the leading cannabis companies in the world. When I spoke to folks who’ve been doing this across the country for years, they offered more perspective and multiple possible outcomes. PAX’s High Purity THC pods Courtesy of PAX There’s a reason the song says, “If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.” It may not be fair to put such a bright spotlight on something that’s so hard to do but that’s New York. It’s moving from the shadows of tiny off-off Broadway houses to the Big Time. New York’s cannabis market is in the middle of rehearsing the biggest performance of its life. It's a challenging journey, but one that's ripe with the potential to create a truly unique and successful cannabis industry right here in New York.” “In the end, we hope and advocate for a future where New York's unique market is protected,” he said, “where the CAURD program continues to be a beacon of social equity, and where the OCM remains committed to supporting local participants in this industry.

Sweat wants to see the Empire State’s industry work for New Yorkers first. “Just like the city itself, we're not here to sleep on opportunities we're here to seize them,” said Sweat. He is the very definition of an impacted entrepreneur. Sweat spent years in prison for weed and is currently making the transition into the legal market for his dispensary in Harlem. jacob Zhou on Canon in D (J.Homegrown New York entrepreneurs like Craig Sweat, owner of Uncle Budd, are not deterred by the clumsy rollout of the program.Pascal Urbaniak on Albinoni Adagio (sheet music + TAB).Dennis Katsefes on Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Sheet music + TAB).

