The court order blocking new entries into New York’s struggling adult-use cannabis market remained in force after a Friday hearing in Ulster County Supreme Court – despite a new appeal filed by the state attorney general to lift the stay.
However, 30 applicants who filed for their permits in time might be able to open for business.
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Several hundred more would-be recreational marijuana entrepreneurs, including both small businesses and major multistate marijuana operators, must wait at least a few more weeks to see how an ongoing legal challenge to the state’s Conditional Adult Use Recreational Dispensary (CAURD) program plays out.
The latest kink in the rollout of New York’s legal marijuana market started Aug. 2, when a group of four service-disabled military veterans sued the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) and the Cannabis Control Board, alleging the CUARD program is unconstitutional.
The veterans claim they want
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