In March 2021, New York State passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, opening up potentially the nation’s largest market to the Dope, Inc.’s bankers. Both before the bill passed and afterward, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo—although he never campaigned against legalization, and eventually signed the bill into law—was seen as an obstacle, slow walking the legislative negotiations before the bill’s writing, then foot-dragging the process of creating the administrative details to facilitate the actual takeover by the dope pushers.
Then came impeachment, with the #MeToo and the related #TimesUp (legal) banshees turned loose against the governor. Shortly after Biden won the November 2020 election, the first publicized allegation against Cuomo surfaced, when Lindsey Boylan — an adviser from 2015-2018, made several tweets on Dec. 13. By the end of the “trial,” at least 11 women had come forward to accuse the governor of “harassment.”