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Kathy Hochul: “When the legislature passed the bill, they wrote in a way…”

Featuring: Kathy Hochul, Democratic | Governor of New York

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No, it needs to be fixed. It needs to be fixed. These people were innocent in a situation which I'll happily describe for you if you've got a couple minutes. When the legislature passed the bill, they wrote in a way that you could not have a Cannabis shop within 500ft of the property line of a school. Right. Some campuses are very large. I mean, the extension of the parking lots and the playgrounds, so it can be fairly far the way it was applied by an individual, which surprisingly is the individual who was hired. (52:17–52:28)

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Asserts that the legislature wrote a bill prohibiting Cannabis shops within 500ft of a school property line.

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