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Weed dealers in NY are still leaving a trail of death and destruction

While progress toward legalized marijuana remains mired in New York’s bureaucratic might, the illegal brand of marijuana continues to flood the streets of Rochester. There is money to be made from marijuana on the black market: hundreds of thousands of dollars. And one consequence of this trade is violence. The black and brown neighbourhoods pay the highest price with the attendant bloodshed and ongoing trauma.