New York’s Cannabis Control Board on Monday approved 99 new Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary licenses, permitted a new testing lab and extended temporary regulations until Aug. 1.

“I think this might be one of the happiest meetings we’re having all year,” said CCB Chair Tremaine Wright after the board approved the licenses. “Walking out of this room, I know we’re all happy – but you’re all going to have a lot of work to do.”

The meeting was the first to take place since a federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against the OCM lifted an injunction he had placed on four regions for the CAURD program. While the enjoinment on the Finger Lakes region is still in effect, the CCB on Monday licensed CAURD applicants in the previously blocked regions of Central New York (one), mid-Hudson (five), western New York (four) and Brooklyn (three).