A gaggle of hashish dispensary homeowners filed a lawsuit towards New York State regulators final week, contending that they may very well be compelled out of enterprise as a result of their storefronts are too shut to varsities regardless of being permitted by regulators, the New York Occasions reviews. In July, practically 200 Conditional Grownup-Use Retail dispensary license holders have been knowledgeable by the Workplace of Hashish Administration that their companies’ location “is in violation” of the state’s hashish regulation.
The lawsuit, filed within the State Supreme Court docket, seeks to dam the proposed proximity rule correction and deem the companies compliant underneath the earlier interpretation that allowed them to open the enterprise on the permitted location regardless of it operating afoul of the regulation.
Within the letter to companies, OCM Performing Director Felicia A. B. Reid Esq apologized and stated she was “keenly conscious” that the data would have “repercussions” for the enterprise homeowners. Reid added that whereas the affected companies are “not presently required to alter” location, it “will turn out to be a difficulty on the time of license renewal.”
“OCM can’t use the previous illegal normal of assessment to think about a license upon renewal,” the letter states.
A invoice to right the regulatory error and grandfather in impacted companies was launched on August 4. It’s at the moment within the state Senate Guidelines Committee.
