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Man jailed for Marijuana, now NY dispensary owner

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(24 Jan 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 24 January 2023
1. Various of Roland and Darius Conner making the first sale at their Cannabis dispensary "Smacked"
2. People in line at dispensary
ANNOTATION: When the war on drugs came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail.
ANNOTATION: Thirty years later, New York is now attempting to right the wrongs of the over policing of marijuana, and is granting some of the first dispensary licenses to people with prior marijuana arrests.
ANNOTATION: to people with prior marijuana arrests. On Tuesday, Conner opened 'Smacked," New York's 2nd legal dispensary.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Roland Conner, owner of Smacked Cannabis Dispensary:
"it is an example of when the government decides to fix a problem that was caused many years ago and they want to right that problem. I it's not easy. It's not clean. But, you know, when people come together passionately to fix something, they can actually make things happen. And, you know, I'm a living example of that now."
4. Various of Conners behind counter
ANNOTATION: Conner said he never thought about getting into the cannabis business until he found out his son was selling marijuana to support his family.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Roland Conner, owner of Smacked Cannabis Dispensary:
"In saving him. I was saving myself. You know, so that's the best way to explain it."
6. Various of Conners
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Darius Conner, Son of Roland Conner:
"The things he had got basically reprimanded for. I can legally do. And before I get reprimanded for it, I can actually do it legally myself. So it really made me want to go that route with it."
8. Various of store
ANNOTATION: Federal data shows similar percentages of white and Black people use marijuana, but the arrest rate for Black people is much higher.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Roland Conner, Owner of Smacked Cannabis Dispensary:
I'm standing on the shoulders of a lot of people who've suffered like I've suffered, went through what I went through and, you know, are still actually going through that. And they made a way, they made a lane for people can go from legacy to legal. And I'm pretty sure a lot of other people want to follow in his footsteps. And so if I can actually pave that way, that's what I want to do."
10. People at counter
STORYLINE:
When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail.
Now he's opened the state's first legal cannabis dispensary run by someone previously punished under New York's old drug laws.
His shop named "smacked" is in Manhattan's Greenwich Village opened to the public Tuesday with the state's support.
It is New York's second legal place to buy recreational marijuana, but the first to benefit from a program that set aside dispensary licenses for people with pot-related criminal convictions.
"It is an example of when the government decides to fix a problem that was caused many years ago and they want to right that problem," said Conner.
Conner, who is now in real estate, said he spent nearly 18 months in jail when he was 19 and had no intension of going in the legal Cannabis business until he found out his some was going down the same path that got him locked up.
"In saving him. I was saving myself. You know, so that's the best way to explain it," said Conner.
Conner's 25-year-old son Darius said that his father told him that he didn't want to see him locked up.
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4416347
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 24 January 2023
1. Various of Roland and Darius Conner making the first sale at their Cannabis dispensary "Smacked"
2. People in line at dispensary
ANNOTATION: When the war on drugs came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail.
ANNOTATION: Thirty years later, New York is now attempting to right the wrongs of the over policing of marijuana, and is granting some of the first dispensary licenses to people with prior marijuana arrests.
ANNOTATION: to people with prior marijuana arrests. On Tuesday, Conner opened 'Smacked," New York's 2nd legal dispensary.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Roland Conner, owner of Smacked Cannabis Dispensary:
"it is an example of when the government decides to fix a problem that was caused many years ago and they want to right that problem. I it's not easy. It's not clean. But, you know, when people come together passionately to fix something, they can actually make things happen. And, you know, I'm a living example of that now."
4. Various of Conners behind counter
ANNOTATION: Conner said he never thought about getting into the cannabis business until he found out his son was selling marijuana to support his family.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Roland Conner, owner of Smacked Cannabis Dispensary:
"In saving him. I was saving myself. You know, so that's the best way to explain it."
6. Various of Conners
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Darius Conner, Son of Roland Conner:
"The things he had got basically reprimanded for. I can legally do. And before I get reprimanded for it, I can actually do it legally myself. So it really made me want to go that route with it."
8. Various of store
ANNOTATION: Federal data shows similar percentages of white and Black people use marijuana, but the arrest rate for Black people is much higher.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Roland Conner, Owner of Smacked Cannabis Dispensary:
I'm standing on the shoulders of a lot of people who've suffered like I've suffered, went through what I went through and, you know, are still actually going through that. And they made a way, they made a lane for people can go from legacy to legal. And I'm pretty sure a lot of other people want to follow in his footsteps. And so if I can actually pave that way, that's what I want to do."
10. People at counter
STORYLINE:
When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail.
Now he's opened the state's first legal cannabis dispensary run by someone previously punished under New York's old drug laws.
His shop named "smacked" is in Manhattan's Greenwich Village opened to the public Tuesday with the state's support.
It is New York's second legal place to buy recreational marijuana, but the first to benefit from a program that set aside dispensary licenses for people with pot-related criminal convictions.
"It is an example of when the government decides to fix a problem that was caused many years ago and they want to right that problem," said Conner.
Conner, who is now in real estate, said he spent nearly 18 months in jail when he was 19 and had no intension of going in the legal Cannabis business until he found out his some was going down the same path that got him locked up.
"In saving him. I was saving myself. You know, so that's the best way to explain it," said Conner.
Conner's 25-year-old son Darius said that his father told him that he didn't want to see him locked up.
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