A | RAVENA, N.Y. -- New York officials launched legal recreational marijuana sales by promising many of the first retail licenses to people with past drug convictions, hoping to give people harmed by the war on drugs a chance to succeed before competitors crowded in.But more than nine months after sales started, only about two dozen state-sanctioned dispensaries have opened their doors. Legal challenges over the state's permitting process have left more than 400 provisional licensees in limbo. Marijuana farmers are reeling because there are too few stores to sell their harvest.State regulators are now expanding the market amid those troubles. They recently opened up a 60-day general application window to grow, process, distribute or sell marijuana, expecting to issue more than 1,000 new licenses. New rules also will allow companies licensed to grow and sell medical marijuana in New York to get into the recreational market.The moves are expected to boost the number of legal dispensaries in a market now dominated by black-market sellers who simply opened retail stores without a license. But the prospect of competing with the medical providers worries some farmers and retailers who fear being squeezed by deeper-pocketed companies before they had a chance to establish themselves.“My concern is that they have all the money to bleed us out,” said Coss Marte, whose opening of CONBUD dispensary in Manhattan was pushed back by a lawsuit against state regulators. “They’re vertically integrated. So now what they could do is ... grow their own product at the cheapest price and basically outbid all the farmers, all our products and all our pricing.”Critics blame New York’s slow retail growth partly on bureaucratic issues, like delays in setting up a $200 million “social equity” fund to help applicants open shops. The rollout also was hobbled by lawsuits on behalf of people and businesses excluded from the first wave of retail licenses. Marte's shop was among those temporarily blocked by a judge from opening after a group sued on behalf of disabled veterans, saying they were wrongly excluded from applying for a license. Marte, who has a past drug arrest, was paying rent on a store he could not open.A judge recently ruled that Marte's store and several others could open. But the fate of many other provisional license holders, like Carson Grant of New York City, was unclear. After months of delays in opening his store in Queens, he was debating whether to reapply for a license again in this general round.“It's very difficult emotionally,” he said.Reginald Fluellen, senior consultant with the Cannabis Social Equity Coalition, blamed the state for a botched rollout.“They’ve failed miserably in providing the justice-involved individuals the kind of head start, the kind of foothold, in the market that they promised," Fluellen said.Under new regulations, medical marijuana providers could begin retail recreational sales at one of their existing dispensaries as early as Dec. 29. They could begin selling recreational pot at two more dispensaries six months after that. The entry price for those companies is steep: a $20 million licensing fee, with $5 million due upfront. But multiple companies are expected to jump in.“We expect New York to be the hub, or one of the hubs, for legal cannabis on the East Coast,” said Curaleaf CEO Matt Darin. “And so we’re very bullish and we’ve invested a lot of capital and time to be able to maximize the opportunity.”Curaleaf, which operates in multiple states, has already invested $50 million in New York, most of it on a recently expanded indoor growing facility south of Albany that now serves the medical market. Rows of plants there mature in intensely lit rooms where humidity, temperature and nutrition are tightly controlled — a scene in stark contrast to the fields and greenhouses that have defined New York’s adult-use market since growing started last year.Curaleaf will be able to double the size of the facility’s canopy to 64,000 square feet, or about 1.5 acres (0.61 hectares), if the market dictates, said Joe Holland, an executive vice president.To guard against retail monopolies, the medical providers will be limited to three retail outlets. And in a nod to farmers, their shops will initially have to devote half their shelf space to products grown and processed by independent businesses.Still, critics say the state should have allowed more time for economically and socially diverse entrepreneurs to succeed before letting in larger competitors.Joseph Calderone of Grateful Valley Farm, near the Pennsylvania border, compared it to little hardware stores competing against big box stores. Large indoor facilities, he said, can produce multiple crops a year. Meanwhile, farms having trouble selling their crops are “teetering on the edge of failure,” he said.“We were given a fair chance to grow. We were asked to do that," he said. "We kept our promise. The state did not keep their promise.” Office of Cannabis Management executive director Chris Alexander said the new regulations maintain New York’s commitment to social and economic equity, while keeping the market more competitive than in other states. That includes giving priority consideration for social and equity applicants in the current round.While acknowledging there was some “frustration” in getting retail stores open, Alexander said the state has shown a market supplied by small farmers can work. "We've got some of the top-performing dispensaries in the country right here in New York," Alexander saidAnd there’s still room to grow. Regulators have estimated New York will eventually require at least 2,000 dispensaries to meet demand. “I think there’s enough business to go around,” said Christian Chavez, CEO of Statis Cannabis Co. He said sales have been good since they opened their dispensary in the Bronx in July. “I think it’ll be quite some time until this market gets saturated in New York.”。 今年以来，俄罗斯的日子不好过，乌克兰凭借无人机攻势，给俄罗斯造成了不小的困扰。 8月，莫斯科上空频繁响起的防空警报声，乌克兰自杀式无人机分批次、多高度、多方向突入莫斯科空域，逼得三大机场轮流关闭，郊区工业设施冒烟。 不过，这个局面，应该很快会迎来巨变，8月24日，俄罗斯传来消息，朝鲜交付的KN-30(火星-11C)战术导弹，已经部署到俄军手上，满编6套发射装置，理论齐射120枚。 朝鲜攻坚重器交付俄军，这意味着俄罗斯的“杀手锏”再+1，或将打破俄乌战场僵局。 为什么这么说?先看数据。
B | KN-30战斗部重达2.5吨，俄军现役“伊斯坎德尔-M”大约500公斤，美军ATACMS只有200多公斤，伊朗“霍拉姆沙赫尔-4”也不过1吨级。 弹道导弹燃料烧尽后，弹头要自己完成姿态调整和末段俯冲。2.5吨的战斗部意味着重心剧烈位移，传统惯导系统很容易在末端失稳。 朝鲜能把这种级别的导弹打出来并交付，说明其固体燃料配方、弹体结构设计和控制算法已经跨过了某个门槛。 再看它的战术价值，俄军手里不缺巡航导弹，也不缺“匕首”这种空射高超音速武器，但“匕首”需要载机起飞，载机在乌克兰防空圈边缘活动本身就有风险。 KN-30是车载发射，能在泥地里机动，打完就撤，齐射时防空系统根本来不及重新引导雷达锁定第二波。
C | 更关键的是，它能打穿那些藏在山体、地下、加固混凝土里的目标。
D | 乌克兰过去两年靠什么撑住战线？靠西方资金输血，靠无人机袭扰，更靠把弹药库、指挥所、维修厂藏在地下。 这些目标此前只有“匕首”能有效摧毁，但“匕首”贵、少、用起来心疼。 KN-30来了之后，俄军可以用两到三枚齐射一座第聂伯河大桥，不是打坏桥面，是把桥墩连根拔掉。乌军七座地区关键节点，一夜之间全在射程之内。 这才叫“攻坚重器”。乌克兰自己都承认，在KN-30的面前，乌克兰的7个地区将进入打击射程。 西方媒体习惯把朝鲜武器渲染成“粗制滥造”，但KN-30的出现，打的是他们的脸。 朝鲜在固体导弹小型化、大弹头投掷能力上的进步，已经超出了很多情报机构的评估模型。 乌克兰的无人机还能继续往莫斯科飞，但战争不是靠“飞过去”就能赢的。
E | 俄军一旦用KN-30系统性地拆掉乌军的地下节点和后勤动脉，基辅的每一次无人机袭击都将变成“绝望的象征”。 眼下，莫斯科的防空警报和乌克兰腹地的爆炸声正在形成某种残酷的同步。当俄军不再需要心疼“匕首”的使用次数，当2.5吨的弹头可以像下雨一样砸向关键目标，这场持续数年的僵局，或许真的快走到算总账的时候了。
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