MIDDLETOWN – Middletown City Police have busted a number of tobacco shops that were selling what looks like innocent candy aimed at kids but was actually infused with cannabis.
And Mayor Joseph DeStefano told the common council Monday night the state rollout of its adult cannabis use policies is “screwed up.”
That has resulted in, among other things, police arresting tobacco store merchants for selling cannabis products.
He wants to do something about it and he pointed to the City of Syracuse, which adopted a local law to curb illegal tobacco shop sales of cannabis by issuing permits for people who sell tobacco.
“I forwarded to the corporation counsel to do their research, hoping that we will be able to have a local license, that if a tobacco shop engages in a certain types of activities, such as this, that harm and are directed towards our kids in our community, then we would have the ability to close that place down, after due process, by revoking their permit to operate as a business,” he said.
The mayor said the city needs to give the police department additional tools to curb illegal cannabis sales.
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