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New York’s now rushing to screw up the legal weed industry even MORE

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State government apparently hasn’t screwed up pot legalization badly enough yet: Now it’s looking to dictate wages for “budtenders,” certified “ganjiers” (cannabis sommeliers) and “trimmers” at legal-MJ shops.

Yes: Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Cannabis Control Board is looking to set up a union-run wage board to oversee the legal industry, when the state is still plagued by gray-market pot shops thanks to the ill-conceived and moronically-managed legalization scheme.

Is anybody involved here not smoking the product?

Hochul supposedly purged the incompetents who’d been running the Control Board over a year ago, but it seems she only installed a union hack and an........

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