As many familiar with the current status and issues facing New York State cannabis and specifically the conditional adult use retail dispensary (“CAURD”) licenses know, there are a multitude of problems that CAURD Licensees are facing and some of them are fed up. To that extent, on May 9, 2023, at least eight (8) CAURD Licensees sent an open letter to the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (“DASNY”), the Office of Cannabis Management (“OCM”) and the Cannabis Control Board (“CCB”) voicing their concerns in the hopes of getting a meeting with those authorities to iron out some issues that have arisen since the awarding of their respective CAURD licenses.
Issues faced by CAURD licensees
Below is a non-exhaustive summary of some of the issues raised in the letter at issue. This summary is representative of some of the challenges the CAURD licensees are facing.
One of the biggest challenges for CAURD Licensees is finding and building out their retail space. DASNY can reject proposed locations based on information only they have access to, without any independent oversight. DASNY while being tasked with securing locations for the CAURD licensees is also the same governmental agency approving locations for
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