After two years of the pandemic battering New York City, the mayor hopes to steer his city toward an economic revival by luring tourists back, beautifying the streets and embracing New York's looming legal pot industry.
As rates of virus cases and deaths have sharply dropped, the new mayor has sought to turn a page, declaring that the virus cannot control New Yorkers' lives and the city must come back.
The mayor's plan calls for helping small businesses and cultivating specific industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical technology and other parts of the life sciences sector, manufacturing, video games and the legal pot industry.New York officials are set to announce that applicants who have prior marijuana convictions will have priority in being issued licenses to sell marijuana in the legal marketplace.
Adams has hyped the industry before, offering rolling papers and a fake bag of marijuana to Stephen Colbert during an appearance on his late-night show while presenting the host with New York City-themed gifts. "We unfairly targeted Black and brown communities during the marijuana, heavy-handed arrests that I fought against when I was a police officer," Adams said.
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