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New York state reckons it’s got cannabis legalisation right

The advantage of not going first

A worker inspects cannabis hanging in a drying room at the Hudson Cannabis farm in Hudson, New York, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. Growers in upstate New York are figuring out how to keep a glut of weed fresh as the state stalls on retail licenses. Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Zu Rong Chen faces steep competition. His unassuming shop, Long Wong Bakery II, is one of seven hawking red-bean buns and egg tarts along a small stretch of Avenue U in Brooklyn. When he embarks on his new business venture, however, Mr Chen will briefly encounter hardly any competition at all.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Roll-up, roll-out”

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