Governor Kathy Hochul (D) and Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar (D) proposed a tough new policy change, known as the SMOKEOUT Act that would allow local law enforcement to directly padlock and shut down the thousands of unlicensed smoke shops selling marijuana throughout New York City and state. Authored by Rajkumar, the bill “Stop Marijuana Over-proliferation and Keep Empty Operators of Unlicensed Transactions” – or SMOKEOUT – would empower individual municipal governments to shut down unlicensed cannabis businesses and seize their products. NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who has made cracking down on t…