Authorities say they have seized more than $41 million worth of illegal products and issued more than $65 million in penalties in recent months.
New York City’s turbocharged cannabis enforcement effort shut down more than 750 stores suspected of selling marijuana without a license since early May, Mayor Eric Adams announced at a press conference in the Bronx on Wednesday.
The mayor added that the shops have attracted crime and in some cases have experienced armed robberies. “This is intentionally designed to draw the eye and interest of our children,” Hochul said, holding up a seized cannabis product packaged in a box resembling a box of crayons.. There were about 2,900 unlicensed cannabis stores operating across New York City before Operation Padlock got underway in May, according to estimates from the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff’s office has so far declined to share how many of the shops that were padlocked remain closed. In some cases, hearing officers have recommended that closures be overturned because of errors that police made when they served the violations, according to records from the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings.
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