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First legal Staten Island pot sales hosted near ballpark, drawing anger from local leaders: ‘It’s the dumbing down of America’

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The first legal sales of marijuana in Staten Island took place Thursday at Staten Island University Hospital Community Park home of the professional baseball team the Staten Island Ferry Hawks.

“Crime and open drug use have increased and this will just make it worse. It’s just another reason why Staten Island should secede from the city and self-govern.”

City and state officials approved the “Cannabis Growers Showcase” on public property near the ballpark, but the team’s owners and local elected officials say they weren’t consulted and wouldn’t have approved if they were.The pot sellers manned 25 tables with 5,000 cannabis products including gummies and other edibles and flowered marijuana.

Regulators gave the first retail cannabis licenses to convicted pot dealers – in a licensing program that is now

 

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