By the end of the year, entrepreneur Coss Marte plans to be running two New York City-based startups: ConBody, a fitness brand, and ConBud, a marijuana dispensary company.
It’s because of the success of the first, a nine-year-old company, that Marte meets the guidelines to enter into the market for the second. The state is reserving its first pot licenses for those with a previous marijuana conviction—or who are closely related to someone who does—and proof that they have at least a 10% ownership interest in a business that has made a profit for at least two years.
Yet the latter requirement makes it sadly obvious that Marte’s
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