Influx of Counterfeit Cannabis Threatens New York’s Nascent Legal Weed Market

This week, guest writer Cailley LaPara takes a look at how New York’s slow-moving legalization process has opened the state to a flood of imitation cannabis products. This is both a public-health challenge and a threat to the newly formed recreational market.

Kyle Kazan, from his company’s headquarters in Southern California, often gets texts from acquaintances in Brooklyn asking him to authenticate a package of weed that really shouldn’t be anywhere near New York City.