NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams has said that NYC destroyed four thousands of cannabis products and shut down more than 1000 unlicensed shops.
Talking to journalists in an event, Mayor Adams said that a thousand shops were closed and we’re going to destroy four tons of cannabis.
“This is out of the 200,000 tons that we have that are still out there, 200,000 pounds that we have that are still out there that we are going to put on the roadmap to being destroyed as well,” he said.
“What we have accomplished is exactly what we knew we could accomplish with the right insight and the right focus and determination,” he said.
Mayor Adams thanked the Reworld and said it is a real partner. “And in addition to just removing the illegal cannabis, they remove over 800,000 tons of garbage off our landfills by destroying it here. This prevents our landfills from being filled, but it also prevents illegal cannabis from going to our landfills,” he said.
“That’s why this partnership is so, so important. When you look at the list that we had, we had a substantial number of locations and sites. We’ve inspected 100 percent of those locations and sites. Now, it’s a continuing inspections. We have to stay on top of this because there are so many people who would like to participate in this illegal endeavor. But we are focused on this,” he said.
Mayor Adams thanked to the governor, her partnership in ensuring and giving us the authority we needed to bring in our other agencies, particularly the New York City Police Department and Speaker Heastie and Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and the work of Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar with her SMOKEOUT Act.
“We continually lift up these products because we want to constantly remind people that there are no barriers or boundaries that those who are selling these illegal products would do to attract our young people, particularly the colorful packaging,” he said.
“We’ve witnessed the distribution location. We witnessed people are packaging their own products, products that are laced with different items. This is why we have spent so much attention on this,” he added.
