But he would like the cops to stop smoke shops from dealing illegal, possibly tainted weed. And now that you mention it, he would like the government to stop hitting him up for so much tax money. He’s keeping up with payroll and debt payments, he said during an industry-update interview Thursday on WNHH FM’s ​“Dateline New Haven” program. Two: Smoke shops illegally selling unregulated (and thus potentially pesticide or nitazene-laden) weed. As for smoke shops, he called for greater legal enforcement to stop the illegal trade and drive more business to legal dispensaries.