New York’s Cannabis Control Board is being sued by four adult-use dispensaries in Manhattan and Brooklyn for allegedly “arbitrary and capricious” decisions to waive state proximity protection rules that guarantee at least 1,000 feet between dispensaries.
The board “flagrantly violates” the intent of the buffer zone rules, “which are essential to preventing market oversaturation, protecting businesses from unfair competition, and ensuring the viability of licensed dispensaries,” the dispensaries said in their complaint filed Thursday in the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.
The board’s actions “are the height of government overreach and unfairness to Petitioners and other similarly situated licensees, …
New York’s Cannabis Control Board is being sued by four adult-use dispensaries in Manhattan and Brooklyn for allegedly “arbitrary and capricious” decisions to waive state proximity protection rules that guarantee at least 1,000 feet between dispensaries. Read More
