Legal woes are disrupting New York’s adult-use cannabis program yet again after a state judge on Thursday agreed to temporarily stop state regulators from processing thousands of pending business applications.
Albany County Supreme Court Judge Sharon Graf’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order bars the state’s Office of Cannabis Management from processing certain social equity applications as well as “any other provisional (adult-use) applications” received last year.
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Graf’s ruling potentially affects thousands of applications.
The judge noted Thursday there are “approximately 340” Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) applications “that have yet to be approved or denied” by the OCM and that an unknown number of the 3,189 applications received in December 2023 also sought provisional licenses.
An OCM spokesperson told MJBizDaily
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