Two out-of-state investors are suing to overturn a Montana law that requires owners of marijuana businesses to be residents.
The suit is the latest in a string of challenges to cannabis industry residency requirements across the country.
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In two lawsuits filed in federal and state court in July, father-and-son plaintiffs Tom and Jerry Reed claim Montana’s marijuana business ownership residency requirements violate the U.S. and Montana constitutions, the Helena Independent Record reported.
The law amounts to “economic protectionism,” they claim.
Other would-be marijuana entrepreneurs have deployed similar arguments in other states after a federal judge’s ruling last year nullified a residency requirement in Maine.
A challenge to New York’s residency requirement, filed by a Michigan man, disrupted the issuance of adult-use retail licenses in that state for months.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that residency requirements in other industries violate the U.S. Constitution.
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