A smoke shop, operating next to a day care, was shut down after state investigators seized 220 pounds of illegal cannabis products, worth an estimated $1.4 million.
The THC beverage industry is expected to be a $4 billion industry by 2028.
Approximately a dozen students -- ages 13 and 14 -- got sick after taking the gummies.
Just across a bustling Union Turnpike in bordering New Hyde Park under the town of North Hempstead, cannabis shops are not allowed.
The legalization of cannabis in New York in 2021 removed legal prohibitions and opened doors to legitimate dispensaries and marijuana farms.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said more than 30 pounds of marijuana, worth a street value of about $38,200, and hundreds of packaged cannabis products were confiscated from The Smoke House.