Articles written about New York

New York Makes Leap Towards Cannabis Legalization

Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have come to agreements on the continuing saga of legalizing adult-use cannabis. With the recent legalization of adult-use cannabis in New Jersey, many were buzzing about the possibility that New York would be next. Wednesday’s Agreements Cuomo and other government officials have agreed

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Light Up Your Life With New York Botanical Garden's Outdoor Installation "GLOW"

The holiday season is over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still be festive! Add some colour to your Covid Winter at the New York Botanical Garden this month before the new outdoor installation, GLOW, packs up. Image: Light Displays, Shani R. Friedman The NYBG is bedecked with

Coronavirus and Cannabis: Life Under a Global Pandemic

As COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, continues to ravage the globe, it’s become impossible to find anyone who hasn’t been affected by the pandemic. Today New York City, the area hardest hit in the United States, begins the first steps toward reopening. Elsewhere in our country and around the

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New York Decriminalization Law Decriminalizes People Too

Along with this shift in attitude has been a shift in the laws pertaining to the plant, allowing it to be decriminalized for medical use in thirty-three states and recreationally legal in eleven.

ACD Health and Wellness

Flashback: Integrating Long Island

On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court, decided that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. In 1962, this ruling was put to the test, this time in Long Island, New York.

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Bruce Linton to Discuss His Next Great Adventure at CWCBExpo New York

CWCBExpo New York, taking place May 28–30, 2020 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, is the only event in the emerging tri-state area focused on the entire supply chain for the legalized cannabis industry including medical, adult use and industrial hemp.

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One Man's Learned Journey

Although many other chronicles have reduced these decades to the cliched dichotomy of “conformist” vs. “radical” or “square” vs. “hip,” Dickstein’s restrained, modest, and tasteful memoir offers the middle way.

Remembering Adele

A talented, uniquely fated woman died in New York on a Sunday night in 2015. When her obituaries appeared, the public was again reminded that Adele Morales Mailer was the second wife of author Norman Mailer; also that she was the wife he stabbed nearly to death at the nadir

Bed-Stuy: A Perspective on Community and Hope

By Editor It’s a hot, sunny, summer, afternoon on July 9, 2019; about 88 degrees. On this day, Vaughn Jefferson, AKA The Cure Rater, unveils an original mural honoring the late Dr. Frank Mickens, a Bedford-Stuyvesant community icon, to a large crowd outside the Ideal Food Basket grocery store

Fashinnovation: The Future of a Storied Industry

By Alexandra Farina I could already hear the excited clamor of voices mingling as I entered the intimate space, strewn with pink and silver balloons, bright neon signs, and big couches set up to make one side of the room feel like a seventeenth century salon. As I checked in,

culture

Unstoppable Harlem Influence: An Interview with Hiphop Artist SNS

This year is looking to be an unstoppable one for SNS as he promotes his forthcoming film Luv Me Now B4 They All Luv Me and eludes to a possible summer album Not a Humble Summer 2.

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FASHINNOVATION Highlights Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Empowerment at New York Fashion Week

Panel topics included fashion tech innovations, innovative supply chain, design, creative, the latest innovations in textiles and in retail, customization, sustainability, augmented reality and more.

Cannabis

Cannabis Means Business: Behind the Scenes at CWCBExpo with Greg Marco

Greg Marco gives the inside scoop on the expo’s origins and what we can look forward to this season.

Cannabis

New York (FINALLY) Legalizes Marijuana!

Now the fun really begins for our glorious city and state where we can pull out a glass pipe and smoke some legal weed.

Cannabis

New York State of Mind: Happy Munkey and the Hero's Journey in Cannabis

Meet Happy Munkey, a smirking simian logo for the lifestyle brand that’s taking the cannabis revolution to the next level.

Holiday High Tea with Spleef nyc™!

By Jackie C.Spleef nyc™’s mission is to show the New York City community that there is nothing wrong with recreationally enjoying cannabis, and that there is another option to canna-markets or over-the-top dinners. The goal is to bring together a diverse group of people from all walks of

The Myth of Making Love

By Ali McPhersonIn Insecure, the heroine Issa gets it on with four lovers. Lawrence, who she previously dated for five years, her ex Daniel, her lowlife neighbor who she met like twice, and her most recent lover Nathan. From the makeup sex with Lawrence to an intense rendezvous in a

New York, New York

By Gayle KirschenbaumI have fallen in love with an old flame. A flame who is passionate, hot, cold, unpredictable, thunderous, steamy, takes me places I never thought I could go, keeps me up at night singing in my ears making my body pulsate.I forgot what’s it’s like

The Big Green: CannaGather Takes Landmark Strides to Trenton, New Jersey

NBA star turned cannabis entrepreneur Al Harrington will deliver the keynote speech at CannaGather New Jersey’s Trenton meetup. (cannagather.com) It feels like the holidays are fast approaching, especially if you’re in cannabis. November brings Marijuana Business Daily’s MJBizConference in Las Vegas, the industry’s largest

Lady of the Leaf: An Interview with Joy Beckerman

Photo courtesy of Hemp Ace International Joy Beckerman is the first woman to be both President of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and sit on the Board of Directors for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). The founder of Hemp Ace International, a New York-based consulting,

Ricki Lake Brings Sweet Understanding in Weed the People Documentary

Few people understand the power of pure communication better than Ricki Lake. The iconic actress/television host-turned-producer has shaped an entire generation by revealing necessary truths, and she does it again in her new film Weed the People, this time joining the cannabis revolution. She and award-winning director Abby Epstein

World's Finest: Sticky Fingrs Launches the First Universal Fingertip Grinder

What began as a simple medical tool is about to make your daily grind a lot easier. This Friday, October 19th, marks the official launch of the world’s first-ever fingertip grinder from Sticky Fingrs, a young New Jersey-based company dedicated to helping people live better with small but essential