In a stunning reversal, a New York state Supreme Court judge on Monday held up all business applications to open adult-use marijuana stores in the state after finding cannabis regulators provided him “contradictory and confusing” information.
This latest stumble in New York’s tortured rollout of legal marijuana comes in an ongoing challenge to the Office of Cannabis Management’s Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) program.
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After legalizing marijuana in March 2021, state lawmakers and cannabis regulators promised the first several hundred retail licenses would be reserved for small nonprofits and “justice-impacted individuals” who could demonstrate drug war-related harm.
That left out many would-be marijuana businesses, including existing medical cannabis licenses held mostly by large multistate operators – a group of which sued the state earlier this year.
Earlier this month, some “service-disabled” military veterans also sued the state, claiming the CAURD program is unconstitutional and –
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