New York's marijuana rollout inches along as New Jersey starts sales

Regulators' plan for a cannabis market that benefits communities that suffered from criminalization is taking longer to set up

Moke Mokotoff, the 72-year-old behind a Columbia County hemp farm newly licensed to grow marijuana for recreational use this summer, is hurriedly preparing to cultivate for New York's first legal recreational sales next winter, even as dispensaries in neighboring New Jersey prepare to make their first adult-use cannabis sales on Thursday.