NEW YORK (PIX11) -- New York is finally borrowing a page out of New Jersey’s playbook and empowering local authorities to crack down on illegal smoke shops.
The thousands of stores that have popped up on streets around the city have strangled New York’s budding legal recreational marijuana industry and become crime magnets.
One potrepreneur, Peter Beznos, showed PIX11 around the Williamsburg neighborhood where his legal and licensed dispensary Hii NYC was about to open.
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