The decision calls into serious question the Mayor Eric Adams' enforcement program, Operation Padlock to Protect. That operation has closed down some 1,000 stores without cannabis licenses.

Mayor Eric Adams said Operation Padlock to Protect shut down 779 businesses across the five boroughs, issuing $65,671,487 in fines and seizing $41,443,792 worth of products. "For too long ...

A state law that has allowed New York City to padlock hundreds of suspected illegal cannabis shops is unconstitutional, a Queens judge said in a bombshell ruling Tuesday. Judge Kevin J.

Mayor Eric Adams marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of the city’s “Operation Padlock to Protect” initiative at a pizzeria on the Rego Park and Middle Village border on Wednesday ...