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Anything cannabis-related in New York.
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Nearest dispensary means ninety minutes up here and nobody accounts for that
every thread about convenience on this site reads like science fiction to me. people complain about a fifteen minute walk. my nearest option is a real drive, and in january it is a real drive with a plan, because if the weather turns i am not making a casual trip for anything. so when a map says there is coverage in my county, sure, technically. coverage and access are not the same word. same thing with delivery, which sounds great until you look at what actually comes this far out. not looking for sympathy, just want it on the record when people talk about how much has been built. some of us are measuring it in hours, not blocks.
Generalnc_plow_518REGULAR1 month ago0 comments
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Long Island has how many shops? Explain this to me
I do not want a lecture, I want an explanation. There are a lot of people out here. There are a lot of towns out here. And yet what I can find within a reasonable drive is a very short list, and my brother in law upstate has better options than I do, which makes no sense to me on population alone. I have heard people blame the towns, I have heard people blame the paperwork, and I have heard people blame the courts. Those are three different stories and I would like to know which one is actually doing the work here, or if it is all three stacked up. Somebody who has followed this closely, walk me through it in plain language. I am good at understanding things, I am bad at reading filings.
GeneralLongIslandLouREGULAR1 month ago2 comments
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The city and the rest of the state are having two different conversations
Something I notice constantly on this site and it took me a while to name it. In the city the complaints are about too much: too many places, too much noise, too much of everything within four blocks. Then I scroll to a thread from someone upstate and the complaint is the exact opposite, that there is nothing within an hour and no sign of anything coming. Both of those are real and they produce completely different opinions about whether any of this is working. I think we sometimes argue past each other because we assume the other person is looking at the same landscape we are. I am not sure what to do about it other than say where you are posting from. It changes how I read everything else you write, in a good way.
GeneralAstoriaAshREGULAR1 month ago2 comments
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Four years in, is anyone actually happy with how this was rolled out
Genuine question, not a rant, or at least not entirely. It has been years now and I cannot work out whether the plan was slow on purpose or just slow. I drive all day and I hear the same conversation in the back of the car from people who could not be more different from each other, and the one thing they agree on is that it did not go the way they were told it would. I am not asking whether you like the idea. I am asking whether the thing that actually got built resembles what was promised where you live. My guess is the answer depends enormously on your zip code, which is sort of my point. So: where are you, and does it feel finished to you? I will read every reply even the ones that tell me I am being a grouch.
GeneralFlushingFrankLOCAL1 month ago3 comments