New York state began accepting applications Thursday to open its first legal recreational pot shops, taking a novel approach by reserving the initial roughly 150 retail dispensary licenses for people with past pot convictions or their relatives.
The application process is a key step toward opening one of the country's most hotly awaited legal cannabis markets, but there's no exact date yet for sales to begin. Except for California, New York is the most populous among the 19 U.S. states that have legalized possession and use of marijuana for adults.
The state announced this winter that the first round of retail cannabis licenses would go to businesses and non-profit groups with a leader who was convicted of a marijuana offence or has a close relation who was.
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