The cost of legal weed is already high in the Empire State, with distributors paying a 9% fee when selling to a retailer, and merchants collecting a combined 13% tax -- 9% to the state, plus 4% for local governments -- on the sale to customers.
Cristina Vargas is now facing a dramatically different life after the July 7 crash outside Los Cinco Puntos Mexican Deli in Boyle Heights, where she had been eating with her daughter.
Paramount has pushed for a settlement in the case, which is the last hurdle to the deal along with a parallel lawsuit by the Writer's Guild of America.
The Mamdani administration admitted it mistakenly told more than 1,000 New Yorkers that they could get hit with a pied-à-terre tax bill unless they proved otherwise, according to new court documents.
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