It has now been over one week since New York’s Cannabis Control Board (CCB) and Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) announced that the general adult-use cannabis license application portal will open on October 4, 2023. For those counting at home, that is less than two weeks away. We, like the many parties with a vested interest in the opening of the application portal, wait with bated breadth for the OCM to provide any news on the myriad open items that are fundamental to the adult-use application process.
People have invested life-changing amounts of time and money in planning to apply for these licenses. It feels like we are still in the dark on so many vital issues with a little over two months before the application portal is scheduled to close (that’s one month for retail dispensary applicants with secured real estate). This writing serves as a public plea that the OCM at least begin providing information on the crucial topics below.
When is the general adult-use cannabis application portal actually opening?
Just about every attorney in New York’s cannabis space immediately noted that the CCB and OCM’s September 12, 2023 announcement, that the application portal is opening on October 4,
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