Marijuana shops sue New York after they were allowed to open too close to schools

Albany, NY (AP) – A group of marijuana dispensaries in New York filed a lawsuit against the state on Friday after admitting that marijuana regulators accidentally allowed Cookware Shops To open very close to schools, to jeopardize the future of businesses.

The case asks the judge of a State Supreme Court in Albany that the cannabis shops are legal and the state to prevent them from taking any execution against them.

The case arrived a few weeks after saying that the state’s legal marijuana office said to the existing or proposed cannabis shops, a state law that requires regulators to be a certain distance from schools.

In about three years since the state started to license Legal Cannabis StoresAuthorities meet the distance from the school door to the door to the door to the door of the dispensaries can be 500 meters (152 meters) from the nearest school.

The state now says that the law actually requires the school’s property line to be measured.

State officials have been licensed and opened under the wrong measurement system of approximately 60 stores, as well as around 40 licenses but not yet opened for business. Then there are about 50 more enterprises who apply for a license and expect final approval from the state.

It was told that they could continue to do business for the time being and that they could work with the expired licenses as long as they applied for renewal. The state has formed a fund where applicants can rise up to $ 250,000 to help move.

Cannabis office, state deputies, to allow businesses to stay in the current locations to make a permanent correction, but this is not guaranteed, he said. The state legislature was not prepared to gather again until next year.

The state’s cannabis office spokesman refused to comment on the case.

The problem of school proximity pointed out the last coup of the state’s legal marijuana program, which Management wrong steps Stopping the market, legal difficulties and allowed illegal shops to develop.

According to the state, there are currently 450 cannabis dispensaries in New York.