Plan to open pot shop in Long Island town gets smoked by residents: ‘I hope you can sleep at night’ скачать в хорошем качестве

Plan to open pot shop in Long Island town gets smoked by residents: ‘I hope you can sleep at night’

They don’t want to pass grass. A mob of some 100 angry residents angrily ripped plans for a pot shop in Islip Monday — and demanded that local leaders ban marijuana sales, which they fear will turn kids in the Long Island town into a bunch of doped out zombies. Most speakers slammed the Town Board for even considering the proposal and argued the potential tax revenue — projected to be millions of dollars — is not worth the consequences of promoting what they described as a gateway drug. “I’ve attended at least 10 funerals for young people lost to addiction, children that I watched start smoking marijuana in middle school and high school and went on to abuse harder drugs,” resident Corrine Winter said during the Town Hall. “Youth marijuana use rises in communities with legal storefronts. Why? Because they lower risk perception,” Winter added. Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/us-news... #longisland #marijuana #drugstore The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports:    / nypostsports   Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Twitter -   / nypost   Facebook -   / nypost