Legal marijuana is sprouting in New York

Описание: (29 Jun 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Clifton Park, New York – 3 June 2022
1. Close-up seedling placed in ground
2. Mid worker planting
3. Close-up of  seedling planted
4. Mid of warning sign
5. Wide of workers planting with fence in background
6. Wide of workers planting through fence
7. Close up of  plant
8. Wide of Frank Popolizo approaching plant
9. Mid of Popolizio planting
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Popolizio, Homestead Farms and Ranch:
"We have about a half an acre here. And that'll be year one --  will be the max for me and we'll see how it goes. Obviously, it's a big undertaking regardless of the amount of space. It's just it's something new and want to make sure that we have all the details attended to.
++BLACK FRAMES++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Popolizio, Homestead Farms and Ranch:
"No stone gets unturned here. We've got motion detectors, we've got lighting that will go off. There's alarms."
++BLACK FRAMES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Albany, New York – 8 June 2022
12. Mid of Chris Alexander, executive director of state's Office of Cannabis Management, typing
13. Close-up of  typing hands
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Alexander, executive director of state's Office of Cannabis Management:
"Yes, it's a unique strategy, it's something that hasn't been done elsewhere, to have this bulk of product coming from outdoors, sun-grown. This being from outdoor cultivation, sun-grown cannabis -  is a bit unique. But we know that the fact that we had an existing hemp farm program and folks who were growing already for the cannabinoid content in those hemp plants, we knew that they would be capable and ready to make this transition."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Clifton Park, New York – June 3, 2022
15. Mid of Rich Morris planting
16. Close-up hands planting
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Morris, consultant:
"Under three months and these will be ready. So, it'll be midsummer. It makes the drying a lot easier. We don't have to worry about high humidities. We still have a good dry period. So these will finish two to three months."
18. Close-up of cannabis plant
STORYLINE:
New York's recreational marijuana market is beginning to sprout, literally, with thin-leafed plants stretching toward the sun in farms around the state.
In a novel move, New York gave 203 hemp growers first shot at cultivating marijuana destined for legal sales, which could start by the end of the year. Big indoor growers are expected to join later.
But for now the field is clear for growers like Frank Popolizio of Homestead Farms and Ranch, where a small crew north of Albany earlier this month dug out shallow holes for seedlings before packing them in by hand.
"It is an opportunity, there's obviously going to be a demand for it," Popolizio said during a break in planting. "And hopefully it benefits the farmers. Been a long time since there's been a real cash crop."
Popolizio is tending to a half-acre plot north of Albany that will grow upward of a 1,000 plants surrounded by a tall electrified fence. He and other "conditional cultivator" license holders can grow up to an acre of marijuana outdoors. They can grow all or some of their crop in greenhouses, though in smaller areas.
The license is good for two years and holders will be able to distribute cannabis products to retail dispensaries.
The head start for hemp growers is an unusual way to gear up a marijuana market. Heather Trela, a marijuana policy expert at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, said states typically rely initially on their existing medical growers.
Popolizio sees it as his "next logical step."

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