{"id":7030443,"date":"2026-08-06T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/angel-investor\/cannabis-honestly-gotham-gal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:00:44","slug":"cannabis-honestly-gotham-gal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7030443","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Honestly – Gotham Gal"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Last week, New York State launched \u201cCannabis Honestly<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a statewide campaign to help students, schools, and parents talk to young people about weed. It came out of a yearlong listening effort: 23 facilitated sessions with more than 450 young people, parents, educators, and community members. The goal is to dispel myths and give families real tools for the conversation. <\/p>\n

This should have been launched before the first legal dispensary hit the street, but better late than never. Here\u2019s the thing. It\u2019s pretty simple. Talk about weed to your kids like you talk about alcohol and sex. Directly, honestly, early. Here\u2019s what\u2019s actually scary: roughly a third of teens surveyed couldn\u2019t correctly guess the legal age for cannabis consumption in New York. And that confusion isn\u2019t happening in a vacuum. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s happening while illegal stores are everywhere \u2014 bodegas, underground operations, unlicensed delivery services all selling product with zero oversight. So parents are scared. Of course they are because you have to be 21 to buy legal weed, and the reality is kids can buy weed underage anywhere but a legal dispensary. Just like alcohol and sex (although you don\u2019t have to be of age to have sex), teenagers are partaking in all of it. If you don\u2019t think so, you are kidding yourself. <\/p>\n

Parents are not just worried their kid might try weed \u2014 they\u2019re worried their kid will buy something laced with god-knows-what from an unlicensed shop down the block. A campaign teaching families how to talk about cannabis? Great. Necessary, even. But it\u2019s treating the symptom, not the disease. The real problem isn\u2019t the conversation \u2014 it\u2019s that illegal weed is still everywhere, undermining the entire point of legalization and regulation in the first place. You can hand every parent in New York a conversation guide. It won\u2019t matter if the corner bodega is still selling untested product to a sixteen-year-old. Fix the enforcement problem. Then the conversation gets a lot easier.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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