New York
DELIVERS WEED
Join the coalition, get legal weed delivered.
Weed is now legal in New York. But how do we get it?
As New Yorkers, we’re smoking in the streets. We’re on our way to opening up dispensaries. We’re advocating for policy that gets people out of prison who were targeted by the U.S. war on drugs. But there’s still a missing link: weed delivery and distribution.
New Yorkers are getting over 10,000 lbs delivered to our doors daily. And while the best weed is grown locally, New Yorkers are not getting their hands on it. The weed delivered to our homes is stuff from elsewhere— we’re talking 10,000 pounds of weed imported from out of state per day.
This weed is not organic, not tested, not regulated.
And yet, there are New York licensed cannabis farms and processors with organic, tested, and regulated products sitting in inventory, ready for distribution.
Consumers deserve to have high-quality, New York-grown, safe, and legal weed delivered to them. And delivery operators deserve to have access to the legal market. Problem solved, right?
Well, sort of. NY is attempting to regulate cannabis by funneling customers to retail locations, when for years they’ve had the convenience of delivery. Additionally, acquiring a delivery license is restricted by state-mandated requirements: a brick-and-mortar retail location, a warehouse for storage, and only a limited set of dispensaries licensed to sell cannabis. These barriers are costly (think: the difference between thousands and millions of dollars to operate your delivery business).
This proposed delivery model does not work… for any of us.
Let the people who have been delivering weed for years be a part of the legal market. Allow all these delivery services to purchase and distribute weed grown in New York. Let’s build a safe and legal delivery system in New York we can all trust. One where consumers can legally buy safe, high-quality cannabis. One led by Black and brown business owners. And one where small businesses thrive.
We believe there's
a better way in.
Our campaign has a few policy solutions for New York
Adopt regulations that allow for delivery licenses independent of brick-and-mortar dispensaries.
As retail rents soar to historic highs, small time delivery entrepreneurs will be shut out of the market in struggling to afford the overhead associated with opening and operating a storefront. Traditionally – delivery operators have leveraged warehouses in lower cost areas to serve as the base of their operations. New York has already allowed for Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary Licenses (CAURD) to deliver without a storefront as they wait to be placed into a location, a great first step but one that may only result in several dozen licensed operators – each capped at 25 employees. This will not be nearly enough to supply the multi-billion-dollar marketplace.
New Yorkers are already purchasing their weed and having it conveniently delivered to their home through hundreds of sophisticated services and thousands of workers. Without opening up licensing to these operators, many of the customers will continue buying on the unregulated market while the entrepreneurs and workers will be forced to operate in the shadows without the legal protection of a license.
Establish a simple and guaranteed process for legacy operators to gain licensure.
Legacy delivery operators have supported New York City’s insatiable appetite for quality cannabis for decades now, all while risking their freedom and safety. It is only right to offer these entrepreneurs and workers a pathway to licensure that doesn’t include a complicated and expensive process or risk of not receiving a license after exposing their identity to the State. Receiving a license to operate as a cannabis delivery business should be no more difficult than becoming authorized to sell tobacco. The only way that we, as a state, can ensure the full transition of our cannabis marketplace from legacy to legal is to include these entrepreneurs. Regulators must exempt delivery operators from the cumbersome, extensive, and competitive application process proposed in part 120 of the newly released regulations.
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New York
DELIVERS WEED
Join the coalition, get legal weed delivered.
Weed is now legal in New York. But how do we get it?
As New Yorkers, we’re smoking in the streets. We’re on our way to opening up dispensaries. We’re advocating for policy that gets people out of prison who were targeted by the U.S. war on drugs. But there’s still a missing link: weed delivery and distribution.
New Yorkers are getting over 10,000 lbs delivered to our doors daily. And while the best weed is grown locally, New Yorkers are not getting their hands on it. The weed delivered to our homes is stuff from elsewhere— we’re talking 10,000 pounds of weed imported from out of state per day.
This weed is not organic, not tested, not regulated.
And yet, there are New York licensed cannabis farms and processors with organic, tested, and regulated products sitting in inventory, ready for distribution.
Consumers deserve to have high-quality, New York-grown, safe, and legal weed delivered to them. And delivery operators deserve to have access to the legal market. Problem solved, right?
Well, sort of. NY is attempting to regulate cannabis by funneling customers to retail locations, when for years they’ve had the convenience of delivery. Additionally, acquiring a delivery license is restricted by state-mandated requirements: a brick-and-mortar retail location, a warehouse for storage, and only a limited set of dispensaries licensed to sell cannabis. These barriers are costly (think: the difference between thousands and millions of dollars to operate your delivery business).
This proposed delivery model does not work… for any of us.
Let the people who have been delivering weed for years be a part of the legal market. Allow all these delivery services to purchase and distribute weed grown in New York. Let’s build a safe and legal delivery system in New York we can all trust. One where consumers can legally buy safe, high-quality cannabis. One led by Black and brown business owners. And one where small businesses thrive.
We believe there's
a better way in.
Our campaign has a few policy solutions for New York
Adopt regulations that allow for delivery licenses independent of brick-and-mortar dispensaries.
As retail rents soar to historic highs, small time delivery entrepreneurs will be shut out of the market in struggling to afford the overhead associated with opening and operating a storefront. Traditionally – delivery operators have leveraged warehouses in lower cost areas to serve as the base of their operations. New York has already allowed for Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary Licenses (CAURD) to deliver without a storefront as they wait to be placed into a location, a great first step but one that may only result in several dozen licensed operators – each capped at 25 employees. This will not be nearly enough to supply the multi-billion-dollar marketplace.
New Yorkers are already purchasing their weed and having it conveniently delivered to their home through hundreds of sophisticated services and thousands of workers. Without opening up licensing to these operators, many of the customers will continue buying on the unregulated market while the entrepreneurs and workers will be forced to operate in the shadows without the legal protection of a license.
Establish a simple and guaranteed process for legacy operators to gain licensure.
Legacy delivery operators have supported New York City’s insatiable appetite for quality cannabis for decades now, all while risking their freedom and safety. It is only right to offer these entrepreneurs and workers a pathway to licensure that doesn’t include a complicated and expensive process or risk of not receiving a license after exposing their identity to the State. Receiving a license to operate as a cannabis delivery business should be no more difficult than becoming authorized to sell tobacco. The only way that we, as a state, can ensure the full transition of our cannabis marketplace from legacy to legal is to include these entrepreneurs. Regulators must exempt delivery operators from the cumbersome, extensive, and competitive application process proposed in part 120 of the newly released regulations.
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