New York City’s crackdown on unlicensed cannabis sellers can continue, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.
Authorities in the city – where thousands of unlicensed cannabis retailers continue to flout state law and harm legal retailers – have shut down 640 illicit sellers since May, Reuters reported.
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Unlicensed marijuana sellers fight back
In a bid to halt that crackdown, 27 unlicensed retailers whose store doors were padlocked and inventory seized sued New York City in federal court in June.
Their suit alleged that the city’s Operation Padlock to Protect program violated their constitutional rights to due process.
But in a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken denied the retailers’ request for an injunction to halt the city’s enforcement.
The judge found a
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