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Andrew Cuomo: “There is no loophole. It is illegal. This store is illegal.”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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Interview with Andrew Cuomo on New York's Illegal Cannabis Shops and Political Future

Published | Video Starts at 06:17

And I asked him, what went wrong here? How did this happen? Like, was there a loophole that these kind of stores that are not sanctioned by the state can open? There is no loophole. It is illegal. This store is illegal. But you have to enforce it. You have to enforce it, and that's what we're not doing. And the reason this is so annoying is because this is obvious, right? (06:17–06:21)

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Asserts that there is no legal loophole allowing illegal pot shops; they are illegal.

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