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A |     RAVENA, N.Y. -- New York officials launched legal recreational marijuana sales by promising many of the first retail licenses to people with past drug convictions, hoping to give people harmed by the war on drugs a chance to succeed before competitors crowded in.But more than nine months after sales started, only about two dozen state-sanctioned dispensaries have opened their doors. Legal challenges over the state's permitting process have left more than 400 provisional licensees in limbo. Marijuana farmers are reeling because there are too few stores to sell their harvest.State regulators are now expanding the market amid those troubles. They recently opened up a 60-day general application window to grow, process, distribute or sell marijuana, expecting to issue more than 1,000 new licenses. New rules also will allow companies licensed to grow and sell medical marijuana in New York to get into the recreational market.The moves are expected to boost the number of legal dispensaries in a market now dominated by black-market sellers who simply opened retail stores without a license. But the prospect of competing with the medical providers worries some farmers and retailers who fear being squeezed by deeper-pocketed companies before they had a chance to establish themselves.“My concern is that they have all the money to bleed us out,” said Coss Marte, whose opening of CONBUD dispensary in Manhattan was pushed back by a lawsuit against state regulators. “They’re vertically integrated. So now what they could do is ... grow their own product at the cheapest price and basically outbid all the farmers, all our products and all our pricing.”Critics blame New York’s slow retail growth partly on bureaucratic issues, like delays in setting up a $200 million “social equity” fund to help applicants open shops. The rollout also was hobbled by lawsuits on behalf of people and businesses excluded from the first wave of retail licenses. Marte's shop was among those temporarily blocked by a judge from opening after a group sued on behalf of disabled veterans, saying they were wrongly excluded from applying for a license. Marte, who has a past drug arrest, was paying rent on a store he could not open.A judge recently ruled that Marte's store and several others could open. But the fate of many other provisional license holders, like Carson Grant of New York City, was unclear. After months of delays in opening his store in Queens, he was debating whether to reapply for a license again in this general round.“It's very difficult emotionally,” he said.Reginald Fluellen, senior consultant with the Cannabis Social Equity Coalition, blamed the state for a botched rollout.“They’ve failed miserably in providing the justice-involved individuals the kind of head start, the kind of foothold, in the market that they promised," Fluellen said.Under new regulations, medical marijuana providers could begin retail recreational sales at one of their existing dispensaries as early as Dec. 29. They could begin selling recreational pot at two more dispensaries six months after that. The entry price for those companies is steep: a $20 million licensing fee, with $5 million due upfront. But multiple companies are expected to jump in.“We expect New York to be the hub, or one of the hubs, for legal cannabis on the East Coast,” said Curaleaf CEO Matt Darin. “And so we’re very bullish and we’ve invested a lot of capital and time to be able to maximize the opportunity.”Curaleaf, which operates in multiple states, has already invested $50 million in New York, most of it on a recently expanded indoor growing facility south of Albany that now serves the medical market. Rows of plants there mature in intensely lit rooms where humidity, temperature and nutrition are tightly controlled — a scene in stark contrast to the fields and greenhouses that have defined New York’s adult-use market since growing started last year.Curaleaf will be able to double the size of the facility’s canopy to 64,000 square feet, or about 1.5 acres (0.61 hectares), if the market dictates, said Joe Holland, an executive vice president.To guard against retail monopolies, the medical providers will be limited to three retail outlets. And in a nod to farmers, their shops will initially have to devote half their shelf space to products grown and processed by independent businesses.Still, critics say the state should have allowed more time for economically and socially diverse entrepreneurs to succeed before letting in larger competitors.Joseph Calderone of Grateful Valley Farm, near the Pennsylvania border, compared it to little hardware stores competing against big box stores. Large indoor facilities, he said, can produce multiple crops a year. Meanwhile, farms having trouble selling their crops are “teetering on the edge of failure,” he said.“We were given a fair chance to grow. We were asked to do that," he said. "We kept our promise. The state did not keep their promise.” Office of Cannabis Management executive director Chris Alexander said the new regulations maintain New York’s commitment to social and economic equity, while keeping the market more competitive than in other states. That includes giving priority consideration for social and equity applicants in the current round.While acknowledging there was some “frustration” in getting retail stores open, Alexander said the state has shown a market supplied by small farmers can work. "We've got some of the top-performing dispensaries in the country right here in New York," Alexander saidAnd there’s still room to grow. Regulators have estimated New York will eventually require at least 2,000 dispensaries to meet demand. “I think there’s enough business to go around,” said Christian Chavez, CEO of Statis Cannabis Co. He said sales have been good since they opened their dispensary in the Bronx in July. “I think it’ll be quite some time until this market gets saturated in New York.”。    都知道，威少已经退役。         在威少宣布退役之后，名记Shams曾补充报道，威少并非没有球队要才宣布退役，相反的，奇才和国王都向他伸出了橄榄枝，但都被威少拒绝。         重点来了，近日，名记Marc Stein补充报道了这部分细节，其表示，奇才给威少的诚意非常足，他们曾开出一份两年合同报价，希望威少重返首都华盛顿。         消息称，是威少，而非奇才，终止了这次谈判。         据悉，37岁的威少对于报价的具体条款或者球队给出的角色定位感到难以接受，最终选择直接结束球员生涯。         除了奇才外，国王也有意续约威少，不过情况类似。         与上赛季相比，威少的球权会发生巨大改变，他将在7号秀小达里厄斯阿卡夫身后扮演一个戏份减少的角色，这对威少来说并没有吸引力。         就奇才的报价而言，美国媒体这么总结：很明显，奇才只是想让威少回来指导年轻球员，上场时间将少得可怜，甚至可能根本没有。         威少从来没有得到过任何球队的真正重视，否则他现在肯定还在打球，他想要的只是一个机会，不想掺杂任何其他因素。         客观说，奇才真的给出了不小的诚意。         可以肯定的一点是，上赛季的威少还很能打，他从替补打进首发，场均可以交出15.2分5.4篮板6.7助攻1.3抢断，三项命中率42.7%/33.8%/69.4%。         除了状态不错外，威少对于更衣室、年轻球员的帮助也不小，最新的报道里，名记Sam Amick这么形容上赛季的威少：“教练组对他赞不绝口，管理层也对他赞不绝口，他和队友之间的关系大部分时间都非常好，他很会维护队友，甚至在面对媒体时，他也会维护一些年轻球员。”          看至此，你大概能知道奇才为何会开出两年合同：          ——从能力上来说，威少还有油          ——虽然有油，但是威少的球风适配性比较有限          ——因为奇才已经有了特雷杨和其他年轻球员，          无法承诺威少球权和地位          ——威少的加盟可以给更衣室、年轻球员带来帮助          值得一提的是，威少曾在2020-21赛季为奇才效力过一年，当时他场均可以拿下22.2分11.5篮板11.7助攻，带队打进季后赛。         这是威少生涯第四次场均三双，同时从后来看，也是威少最后的巅峰，转会湖人之后，威少就不复当年之勇，同时也遭遇了更多质疑。         个人觉得，留在国王确实没有太多必要，毕竟国王已经完全进入重建，别说是总冠军了，根本看不到半点季后赛甚至附加赛希望。         但没有加盟奇才真的很可惜，奇才有浓眉，有特雷杨，有AJ迪班萨，理论上还有进入季后赛的可能性。         威少本有机会以一名导师身份打到39岁，然而他拒绝了这样的可能性，很遗憾，但这也就是威少的性格。         他宁可在还能打的年纪退役，也不愿意承认自己不如别人，或者只是坐在替补席边缘——感叹下，直至生涯的最后，威少还是那个熟悉的威少啊。

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