 second legal dispensary and what makes this one unique is that the applicant was impacted by the war on drugs. He's a social equity applicant that was incarcerated for possession of cannabis. Good morning, it's a wonderful day. My name is Roman McDaniel, President of the CODAS, the board member of the Office of Cannabis Management. This has been a long journey for all of us. This is the first social equity applicant to open up a legal dispensary in New York City. New York is really doing something amazing at this point to really tell you the way that stigma and realize that, you know, I'm an entrepreneur, no I'm a person at the end of the day. And we have people at the end of the day. And if I was sitting on the bus, I'm a passenger, but when I get up that bus I'm a citizen. And so I went through a situation where when I was in jail I became a convict, but when I came home I'm no longer that. And so I really don't like the press using that as a term. I went through that and I served my time. You know what I'm saying? And now I'm here now. So I'm just happy to be here and I think everybody deserves a chance to do your time. You come home and you should be able to get a job. And they should not hold that against you because that's one of the biggest things that they have to fix. My opinion on the unlicensed operators, listen, I come from that. And so my opinion is that at the end of the day that they should be supported. They should not be stamped out. And they should give them the opportunity to make the transition from legal to legal. They should be helped in doing that. Chris, can you report an update on how the fund is going and just give us more of a current status? The fund is going well. We're actually at the first individually owned and operated store by a social equity applicant. Roland has done a great job and we're excited about not only his dispensary in his business, but also his empathy in how it will transcend the walls of his dispensary and affect his community. So that's the status of the fund right now. Today, we're opening up the first social equity dispensary in the state of New York. And I think that's a pretty big update. Have you guys been getting the buy-in, you expector, from the private sector for the money? Well, you should speak to the fundraisers about that. And today, we're here to celebrate Roland opening up his first social equity dispensary. And that's pretty much the conversation of today. So I know him very well, though I've never met him because I know a lot of my friends and family that haven't had access or it's been unfairly targeted by the crimes of marijuana that maybe some people are capitalizing on it now. So it's a familiarity with all of us no matter where you're from. And that's why I'm so proud that he stayed patient, he persevered, he worked hard and now he has an opportunity with this dispensary. What we decided to do is with the assessments and stuff we've been doing, the properties takes time getting the plans done. So the thought process was let's do a pop-up, get sales going because that also acclimates Roland and his team how to run a store, you know, because there's a lot of pressure. So once we get that, you know, going, then they could actually start to tear it down, grew up in a permanent store but it actually gets them exposed to the elements of how to run a store and the SOPs, setting up the SOPs. And at the end of the day, there's not a playbook for this. You know, in other states when they've done social equity and stuff, they've given a piece of paper but there's no money behind it. So a lot of these pieces of paper just sit around and do anything for what the state's doing. This is a big lift and I applaud them. In other states, you know, they just kind of hand out paper and there's no success to what's happening. So what's doing, there's no playbook to do this and it's a big lift but you see what's happening and they're doing a really good job at what they're doing. Do the temporary setups meet the rules and regs or I mean, are they even really in place? Yes. So what we do is in some times where you would have a card access to get in between rooms, we have an arm guard at those locations. I'm Deborah Borchard reporting for the Green Margaret Report from Smack Village in New York City.