New York's city government owns and manages 178,684 units, about 6% of the housing stock. They manage it exceptionally poorly, nobody wants to live there, and they are routinely sued for their inability to keep units in repair and supplied with heat and hot water.

It is not the same process as every state, it's a much worse process. Arizona legalized recreational marijuana in November 2020 and had granted licenses to dispensaries that were open and able to do business by February 2021.

There are a multitude of other states that have set an easy to follow template of how to roll things out safely, quickly and effectively and there is no excuse for the bumbled, slow rollout that the state is stumbling through.