Despite the recent raid In a series of actions taken by NYC Mayor Eric Adams to shut down unlicensed weed shops and fine landlords who own the buildings in which they operate, one weed shop appears to have responded to threats from the not to notice the mayor at all.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

The Jungle Boys store not only ignores the authorities, but also does so at close quarters: 85 meters from City Hall, the seat of New York City government.

“I’m aware that we’re selling to the town hall folks,” Edward Nunez Lopez, a Jungle Boys employee, told the NY Post.

The densely populated downtown area, which is also close to Wall Street, is doing well despite two police raids that seem to have done little to stop Jungle Boys’ shopkeepers and workers from immediately getting back to work.

“Everyone who is in the building comes here. All! People who don’t smoke – they eat edibles. People who don’t make edibles — they make chocolate,” Lopez said.

NYPD’s limited authority over illegal weed and smoking shops

Chris Alexander, executive director of the Office of Cannabis Management, told reporters in recent months that with regard to state plans to enforce laws against illegal cannabis sales in NYC, police have expressed concerns about their ability to enforce certain aspects of the law.

In a statement to the New York Post in November, the NYPD said the law, as currently drafted, “provides no enforcement mechanism when an unlicensed establishment is displaying cannabis for sale. The law only provides an enforcement mechanism if an actual sale is observed.”

Although a city-state task force consisting of city deputy sheriffs and employees from other agencies raided Jungle Boys (not affiliated with Jungle Boys from LA) in December and again in January kept the store from operating, he faces fines and multiple criminal and civil subpoenas.

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