'We've Invested Everything': Cannabis Shops Across NY Face Closure Due to State's Measuring Mistake

‘We followed the rules’: 12 NYC cannabis businesses sue state to block school-distance rule change

A dozen NYC-based cannabis businesses are suing to block the state Office of Cannabis Management from enforcing a newly reinterpreted school-distance rule, arguing the abrupt reversal threatens to wipe out their businesses and undermine the state’s equity goals. The group is among 152 dispensaries and license holders affected by the OCM’s decision last month to reinterpret its buffer rule to measure from a school's property line rather than its …

Cannabis Shops Sue New York Over Rule Change That Could Shut Them Down

A group of cannabis dispensary owners sued New York State regulators on Friday claiming they could be forced out of business because their storefronts were too close to schools after state officials admitted recently that they had been incorrectly measuring the required distance. Investors poured millions of dollars into dozens of cannabis shops that could now be forced to relocate or be barred from opening their doors because of the mistake by …

'We've invested everything': Cannabis shops across NY face closure due to state's measuring mistake

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Alesha and Ricardo Chambers have spent the past three years working to get their business, Pure Wellness Dispensary, off the ground. After a long licensing process and sinking nearly a million dollars into the venture, they finally opened their cannabis shop on West Ridge Road in early July.Three weeks later, they got […]

New York Cannabis Stores Sue State Over School Proximity Rule Change

The Marijuana Herald - Marijuana news and information A coalition of marijuana dispensaries in New York has filed a lawsuit against the state, arguing that regulators’ recent interpretation of a school distance rule threatens the future of dozens of licensed businesses despite no wrongdoing on their part. Filed in state Supreme Court in Albany, the suit asks a judge to declare the dispensaries’ locations legal and bar the state from taking enfor…

NY Weed Dispensaries Sue Regulators Over Misinterpretation of State Rules

The Housing Works Cannabis Company, New York State’s first legal recreational dispensary when it opened in 2022, may need to relocate because it is too close to a school.

New York's Cannabis CAURD Scheme Rules Unconstitutional by Federal Court - Business of Cannabis

New York’s beleaguered adult-use cannabis industry has been dealt yet another legal setback this week as a Federal court ruled that its licensing procedure is unconstitutional, just days after the state’s regulator conceded a major oversight threatening dozens of licensees. On Tuesday (August 12), the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that the state’s policy of giving priority to license applicants with cannabis-related conviction…