Distributing cannabis-selling licenses to meet goals related to equity concerns has merit. But safety should be the public policy priority. I made this point during a recent New York Association of Towns meeting about how best to implement New York’s cannabis laws.
The increase in violent crime sweeping through cities and communities across the nation puts a premium on passing new laws to address this troubling trend. Focusing on prosecutions is one way to attack the problem. Another is passing common-sense measures to end incentives and opportunities to commit violent crime in the first place.
Unfortunately, our archaic banking laws do just that. They have turned employees of America’s booming state-licensed cannabis industry into sitting ducks for violent, armed criminals.
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