"On May 28, 2024, Lenore Elfand, the owner of Empire Cannabis Club, an unlicensed dispensary in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, received a frantic call from an employee. NYPD officers and deputies from the city's Sheriff's Office were lined up at the door, poised to raid the shop. Elfand said in an affidavit that when her security guard insisted on filming, officers placed him in handcuffs, killed the security cameras, and stormed in."
"Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to expedite reclassifying cannabis from a Schedule I drug (the same designation as heroin and LSD) to a less dangerous Schedule III drug (like ketamine or Tylenol with codeine). The order doesn't legalize marijuana, but paves the way for further research into its potential benefits and for tax breaks for cannabis companies."
"Her security guard was detained without charges for 30 hours. When she was given paperwork to sign, she wrote, the invoice "had no actual documentation of what they took." More troubling was an omission: more than $10,000 in cash that she said officers removed from her store and that she never got back. Her claims were part of a larger suit on behalf of several cannabis merchants, in which a judge found that the Sheriff's Office violated the shop owners' constitutional rights."
Lenore Elfand, owner of Empire Cannabis Club, said NYPD and Sheriff's deputies raided her unlicensed Chelsea dispensary on May 28, 2024. Officers allegedly handcuffed a guard who filmed, disabled cameras, seized suspected-THC products, and took more than $10,000 in cash that was not returned. The guard was detained 30 hours without charges and invoices lacked documentation of seized items. A judge found the Sheriff's Office violated the shop owners' constitutional rights in a broader lawsuit. Cannabis sales have surged nationwide, and a presidential order to reclassify cannabis to Schedule III aims to enable research and offer tax benefits for producers.
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