Marijuana was still illegal
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Written submissions were encouraged and reviewed by the committee (see Appendix A for a listing of these presentations and submissions to the committee)
'These measures will destroy the business investment of retailers who have been leading the effort to prevent youth access to tobacco products, and the result will be lost revenue, lost jobs and an increasing number of sales in unregulated and illegal settings,' Jim Calvin, president of the New York Association of Convenience Stores, said after the legislation passed earlier this month