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#NYC: The Bleecker Street free-lance cannabis unregulated market & What is to be done? Harry Siegel NY Daily News

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#NYC: The Bleecker Street free-lance cannabis unregulated market & What is to be done? Harry Siegel NY Daily News
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-new-york-pols-bet-big-on-short-term-memory-loss-20230204-es5modo6rffplkgejy3h7b536i-story.html

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0:38.2

Leaker Street, New York City. I welcome Harry Segal, columnist at the New York Daily News,

0:43.4

a senior editor at the City and online journal. Leaker Street in 1970, when I first arrived

0:49.6

in New York, was a colorful member of the counterculture, so called in 1970. The war, the Cold War,

0:58.1

the alienation, civil rights, college students with long hair, no rules on Leaker Street.

1:05.8

And marijuana was in the air everywhere along Leaker Street. This is the summertime.

1:11.1

And the young men, mostly I remember all young men, standing on the curbside or on the

1:16.5

steps of the beautiful brown stones needing repair. We're called dealers. 52 years later.

1:23.5

Harry, a very good even two year, most recent column points out same bleaker street, same

1:28.4

marijuana, probably a better grade, but a conflict between Albany, the governor and the

1:35.0

legislature, and the enforcement mechanism of New York City and the wish for customers

1:42.0

to buy marijuana. The wish for dealers to make, excuse me, wholesalers or retailers to make

1:49.5

them a profit. The wish for the city and the landlords to reap a part of that profit,

1:55.0

but it's not working. Good evening, Harry.

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