Just a day after New York police and state tax agents raided two locations of the Empire Cannabis Club, the marijuana dispensaries are back in business, showing the challenges of shutting down unlicensed weed stores.
On Wednesday, Empire’s Chelsea location, sandwiched between a vintage poster shop and a Chipotle just north of Google’s Eighth Avenue offices, was open to customers, with air conditioning and hip hop filtering through the sleek store.
A clerk working at the dispensary said its THC products — the component that gets consumers high — had mostly been confiscated by authorities on Tuesday, but Empire Cannabis ...
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