By Sean Teehan | steehan@syracuse.com
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One of the most influential groups helping set policy for New York’s legal cannabis industry is led mostly by farmers with little prior political experience — but with early success in representing small to mid-sized marijuana businesses, the group is punching above its weight.
The New York Cannabis Growers and Processors Associationconsisted of five people and one paid lobbyist when it formed about three years ago. Today, the association stands at about 250 members, according to the group, and its board members point to several accomplishments within the state’s cannabis legalization law as evidence of its increasing clout in Albany.
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