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Speaker 1: All right, way up.

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Speaker 2: But Angela Yee, I'm Angela Yee, and Jasmine from the

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Speaker 2: Jasmine brand dot Com is here and we have Chairwoman

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Speaker 2: Chermaine right, Can I call you that?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Indeed you can.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, now, this is an important thing, and

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Speaker 2: I know you guys are going to be so excited

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Speaker 2: to get some really valuable information. But chairwoman to remain

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Speaker 2: right is the chair for the State Cannabis Control Board.

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Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, we are here in New York. We're trying

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Speaker 4: to roll out legalized cannabis. We're working on regulations and

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Speaker 4: putting the rules together so the people that want licenses

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Speaker 4: that they can reliably trust has been tested and grown

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Speaker 4: here in the state.

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Speaker 3: We're doing all of that now, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, And whoever would have thought this day would come?

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Speaker 3: Oh, you're working on it for a while. So we've

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you what the surprise is, probably for me,

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Speaker 4: think that's what a little bit of the surprise.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and not just the average person.

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Speaker 2: I mean, statistically, ninety three percent of marijuana arrests, we're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody uses the equal rates.

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Speaker 2: So how do we ensure that this does because we

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Speaker 2: And sometimes I've heard people say capital has been a

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna say, I think the first thing is

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Speaker 4: So what we've done is we've broken up the market.

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Speaker 4: We've said that you cannot have a license to do

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Speaker 3: So and you can't hold.

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Speaker 3: There you go. You can only have one license. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: So you can be in retail, which is those three licenses,

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Speaker 2: And to be clear, right, retail is a higher business period,

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Speaker 1: So what are the rules.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about this, because I think the first

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Speaker 4: So everyone in New York State currently who has a

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Speaker 2: much that's added to the economy. But is there anything

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Speaker 4: cannabis must be reinvested back into communities that were disproportionately

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Speaker 3: So since we just started sales.

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Speaker 4: We have not actually distributed any grants, but we're starting

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it looks it's like a loan fund so that

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Speaker 6: I'm not familiar with the process to actually get a license.

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Speaker 6: What is the process? I mean just in high level,

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Speaker 3: A good experience for all New.

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Speaker 4: Yorkers essentially, but it's an application process similar to what

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Speaker 1: Okay, they know that.

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Speaker 6: And is there certain areas that you can that people

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Speaker 4: Two hundred five hundred rule exists, people, So we do

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Speaker 4: not want any dispensaries or consumption spaces to be located

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Speaker 4: within two hundred feet of a it's two hundred school, sorry,

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Speaker 2: So you got to make sure if this is what

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Speaker 5: And is that growing too, if you're growing too.

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Speaker 3: And that's illegal in New York State as well.

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Speaker 4: So one, you do not get to trade cannabis for

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Speaker 3: You have a license.

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Speaker 4: And we have only distributed two hundred licenses and only

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Speaker 4: However, they all get to deliver, so even if they

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Speaker 4: Now we have the right to go in and to

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Speaker 3: People who we have not licensed.

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Speaker 4: So originally the law said you get to regulate the

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Speaker 1: Yes, New York. I was gonna say, New York is different.

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Speaker 1: Ive never seen so many snow shots ever.

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Speaker 4: So now we can go in and enforce against them.

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Speaker 4: Not, and you cannot do interstate travel with it, and

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Speaker 2: So in New York, in order to sell in New

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Speaker 2: Now, what, how wan did you get caught on the

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Speaker 3: Want you to land in the state that's not so friendly, right, Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 2: Now when it comes to other businesses that you can

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Speaker 4: This is where we're going to start to see the

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Speaker 4: Why because how do you live your life with cannabis?

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Speaker 2: Or I should be smoking your own stuff, stressed out right.

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Speaker 4: Consumption spaces, consumption licenses, and I think that we're going

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Speaker 4: to start to define the same way we defined, say

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Speaker 4: the consumption of liquor and music with our club scene

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Speaker 4: and everything. I think we're going to start to see

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Speaker 4: something similar in the with that utilized cannabis, Like.

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Speaker 2: Coffee shops in Amsterdam, Yes, because I've definitely been to

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Speaker 2: some of those, and that's so long.

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Speaker 1: You can't have.

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Speaker 3: Liquor, and you can't have liquor and you can't. However,

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Speaker 3: there's a whole product.

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Speaker 4: There are so many product lines at this moment that

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Speaker 4: do sophisticated cocktails without any alcohol in it. So we

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Speaker 4: can expand our the way we're thinking about it, and

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Speaker 4: we can think about what a cocktail means and what

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Speaker 4: it means to have a dream. Just like one of

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Speaker 4: my favorite places that sells well cannabis product, they actually

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Speaker 4: only sell CBD does infused yoga.

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Speaker 3: Like we're getting ready to experience the New York.

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Speaker 2: Cannabis because I know people who are like, I smoke,

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Speaker 2: but I don't really drink like that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know some people. Yeah, some people usually do

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Speaker 5: either or they're.

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Speaker 1: Ye both of them. Is like, okay, you're going over

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Speaker 1: get it crazy now.

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Speaker 2: But all right, Well, I'm glad that you came up

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Speaker 2: here to get all of these things out, just because

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Speaker 2: I know there's so many questions about it, and I

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Speaker 2: do want to encourage people. If you're not in the

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Speaker 2: position right now to be able to get a dispensary.

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Speaker 2: There's other things, like you said, that you can do.

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Speaker 2: You know, you can market. You can also come up

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Speaker 2: with products that people can use. Yes, indeed, and like

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Speaker 2: you said, a home goods store which is really nice

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Speaker 2: CBD products, other different ways that you can be involved

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Speaker 2: and profit off of this, because you have to think

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Speaker 2: with dispensaries opening, if you have a delivery service, there's

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Speaker 2: a way that you can also partake in delivery, if

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Speaker 2: you do online.

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Speaker 1: You know that people are going to need.

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Speaker 2: All of these different services, and so it's a perfect

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Speaker 2: time if you're an entrepreneur to come up with some

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Speaker 2: ways to incorporate and take part in this business.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I would just want to also encourage people go to

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Speaker 4: our website cannabis dot ny dot gov.

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Speaker 3: They can get.

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Speaker 4: Information on our proposed regulations, any guidance that's available. If

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Speaker 4: people want to talk to their kids about cannabis and

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Speaker 4: try to develop what that language looks like. We have

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Speaker 4: tools for parents on there as well. We're running a

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Speaker 4: why bi legal campaign. It'll help our communities that are

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Speaker 4: concerned with the oversaturation of these smoke shops. How do

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Speaker 4: they address it and how do they educate one another

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Speaker 4: so that people know what to look for so if

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Speaker 4: they're not going into these spaces, so that we can

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Speaker 4: make sure that people are not getting sick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it could be pesticides and yeah, all kinds

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Speaker 2: of you don't know what's in it. Like we said,

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Speaker 2: you know, fatanahl was a big problem is still a problem.

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Speaker 2: So you just want to make sure you're going to

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Speaker 2: places that are a licensed and you can see the

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Speaker 2: list right of license dispensary.

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Speaker 4: Cannabis dot ny dot gov. We have all of the INFRA.

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Speaker 4: We also have our board meetings that are streamed live,

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Speaker 4: so if you want to watch and see what the

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Speaker 4: deliberative process looks like for regulations, or if you're worried

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Speaker 4: about someone's license that's coming before us. You get the

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Speaker 4: opportunity to listen in those meetings.

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Speaker 2: Are no joke, guys, All right, well, thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: Chairwoman Tremaine right, We really appreciate it. We're going to

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Speaker 2: keep on checking in with you if there's any big

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Speaker 2: news or things happening, just because I like to go

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Speaker 2: right to the source.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, and I'm available in time past zone.

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Speaker 3: Well