A federal court in Washington state has rejected a cannabis entrepreneur’s initial effort to upend the market’s marijuana social equity program.
And U.S. District Judge Tiffany Cartwright hinted in her Jan. 5 ruling that a constitutional challenge to social equity programs and preferential licensing similar to other actions that’s wreaked havoc in legal markets such as California and New York is likely to ultimately fail in Washington state.
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Those challenges were launched by Kenneth Gay, a self-identified Michigan resident with a below-median income and a marijuana charge in his home state on his record.
Companies affiliated with Gay have filed for social equity permits across the country and then filed lawsuits challenging the social equity laws when he’s been denied.
According to court records, Gay
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