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Kingston marijuana panel, officials mull county seal of approval for cannabis products – Daily Freeman – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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KINGSTON, N.Y.—The city’s Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act Task Force met for the final time on Thursday with Mayor Steven Noble and Ulster County Executive in attendance to talk about the possibility, assuming Ulster County or Kingston lands a recreational marijuana dispensary, of developing a county seal of approval for cannabis products.
The task force wanted to meet with Metzger after developing recommendations over several months around how the legal cannabis industry would function in Kingston. Noble said the city had come a long way in terms of readiness.
“I think we just weren’t quite prepared, I think Kingston is really prepared now for what’s to come,” said Noble.
Metzger said she had a vision for the industry in the county and cautioned against large companies polluting the process.
“The cannabis industry can go in two different directions,” she said. “It can be this large corporate-dominated, unsustainable, inequitable economic force, or it can be a real model of socially just, equitable and sustainable and small scale (industry).”
Metzger said dispensaries might need training in operating a small business and help to navigate the different licenses, and added “That to me is what makes sense for Ulster County.”
She said the county’s old economic development director put out a request for proposals for a consultant to come in and make recommendations for how to best support the nascent industry, but that it didn’t align…
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