Brooklyn Daily Eagle — Brooklyn Eagle Staff
PARK SLOPE — CITY COUNCILMEMBER SHAHANA Hanif on Sunday hailed the ongoing crackdown on the city’s gray-market marijuana stores, dubbed “Operation Padlock to Protect,” and reported that two unlicensed stores in her district, PB on the Slope on Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street and Flatbush Smoke Zone on Flatbush near Grand Army Plaza, had been shuttered by the Sheriff Joint Compliance Task Force. Hanif wrote in a statement that while she supports legal dispensaries, she believes illegal stores
selling unregulated products pose a threat to public health and urged law enforcement to continue the closings.
“We urge further action to crack down on these shops that have proliferated in our neighborhoods… We need proper regulation to keep everyone safe,” Hanif wrote in an email.
