On December 18, 2023, the day New York’s cannabis regulators wrapped up their initial cannabis licensing application period, the state was hit with yet another lawsuit seeking to halt the licensing of adult-use retail...more
A New York judge approved settling a lawsuit filed by a group of service-disabled veterans, granting the group a provisional license and paving the way for more than 400 provisional licensees to open marijuana dispensaries....more
New York begins accepting applications for certain adult-use cannabis licenses Oct. 4.
Applications for cultivator, processor, distributor, microbusiness and retail dispensary licenses will be available on the New York...more
New York is opening up its cannabis market to cultivator, processor, distributor, microbusiness and retail dispensary applicants beginning Oct. 4, a move that could finally spur significant sales, but one criticized by some...more
A state Supreme Court Justice issued a stern ruling Aug. 18 criticizing the state’s legal cannabis program and stopping it from issuing new retail licenses.
State Supreme Court Justice Kevin R. Bryant ruled a veterans...more
New York Supreme Court Justice Kevin Bryant issued a temporary restraining order blocking new marijuana retail licenses in the wake of a lawsuit filed by a group of service-disabled veterans.
The temporary restraining...more
The “gray” marijuana market of pop-up storefronts, smoke shops, bodegas, and mobile stores throughout the New York state have been illegally selling marijuana while the Office of Cannabis Management (“OCM”) finalizes...more
Delays in rolling out New York retail cannabis dispensary licenses prompted one legislator to introduce a bill to allow the state’s struggling cannabis cultivators to sell directly to consumers.
The Cannabis Crop Rescue...more
A New York-based coalition has accused the state’s Office of Cannabis Management and Cannabis Control Board of “unconstitutional overreach” in its management of the state’s legalized cannabis effort and asked a judge to...more
After a recent exposé by NY Cannabis Insider found conflicts between the actual and advertised levels of THC in several strains of legal recreational cannabis available for sale, the state of New York has changed testing...more
It has been four months since U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe issued an injunction barring the New York Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) from issuing any conditional adult-use retail dispensary (CAURD) licenses in...more
Call it a conundrum: the passing of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (“MRTA”) allowed New Yorkers 21 years or older to use recreational marijuana legally but provided no legal way to purchase it.
The result was...more
The Office of Cannabis Management in New York state has provided further guidance on how adult-use conditional cultivators (AUCCs) must measure and report the square footage of their flowering canopy to remain compliant with...more
For the first time since 1981, New York will lower the interest rate on money judgments based on consumer debts from nine percent (9%) per annum to two percent (2%) per annum. Governor Kathy Hochul signed the bill, S5724-A,...more