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Eric Adams: “We closed down, I think it's about 1600 [illegal cannabis…”

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So now we've hit several warehouses and we're now zeroing in. That's the same thing we did with the illegal cannabis shops. We started going after the mother loads and We closed down, I think it's about 1600 [illegal cannabis shops]. of them. And now the legal cannabis shops are making money now. So we want to go after those motherloads and get it to close down one. (1:48:21–1:48:25)

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