NY Regulators Forge Ahead April 12, 2024 Tom Hymes New York, News & Insights 0 Comments The parade of legal actions that has beleaguered New York’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) seemingly forever was hardly mentioned during Thursday’s meeting (viewable here) of the Cannabis Control Board (CCB), but it was in the room. Chair Tremaine Wright,… Read More→
N.Y. Ruling Puts Adult-Use Program On Shaky Ground April 9, 2024 Tom Hymes New York, News & Insights 0 Comments New York experienced two remarkable incidents last week: a near catastrophic legal earthquake on Wednesday, and then an actual 4.8 seismic event on Friday. The latter event swayed buildings and rattled a few east coast nerves, but it was the… Read More→
Final NY Regulator Meeting of 2023 Gets Testy January 2, 2024 Tom Hymes Compliance and Regulations, New York, News & Insights 0 Comments The emergency meeting of New York’s Cannabis Control Board (CCB) called for last Friday (December 29) started 20-minutes late, a seeming eternity, but that was forgotten as soon as the meeting began and it became clear that something was off… Read More→
New York State Seeks Stay in CAURD Lawsuit September 19, 2023 Tom Hymes New York, News & Insights 0 Comments As calls are increasing to codify CAURD, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a motion late last week with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York seeking “an order granting defendants-appellants a stay pending appeal of… Read More→
A Silver Linings Playbook for New York’s CAURD Program September 5, 2023 Tom Hymes Compliance and Regulations, News & Insights 0 Comments While New York cannabis consumers are feeling their oats in terms of having access to copious amounts of weed in the Big Apple and beyond, the situation for operators is far less rosy, to say the least. Applicants to the… Read More→
New York Cannabis: The Variscite Injunction is Lifted June 19, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments By Simon Malinowski, Attorney at Harris Bricken The news tricked out slowly, then all at once: New York has settled the Variscite litigation, and the injunction prohibiting Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licenses in the Finger Lakes region has been lifted.… Read More→
‘Discontent and despair’: NY cannabis entrepreneurs fed up with state’s problematic industry rollout May 10, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments Tensions are rising among New York’s recently licensed cannabis entrepreneurs. A group of Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licensees have documented in a letter an “alarming and unacceptable” lack of communication and transparency among state cannabis regulators. The group of… Read More→
New York Adult Use Cannabis: A Timing Update March 1, 2023 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments By Simon Malinowski, Attorney at Harris Bricken There has a been a lot going on as New York continues to move towards rolling out its full adult use cannabis licensing, which has itself led to a lot of confusion in… Read More→
Cannabis: A Primer for New York Employers December 3, 2021 Celena Mayo New York 0 Comments By Celena R. Mayo with contributors Jeremy M. Buchalski and Lindsay Kalick In March 2021, the New York State Legislature passed, and then-Governor Andrew Cuomo signed, the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA or the Act). In addition to legalizing… Read More→
New York’s Cannabis Control Board – What’s Going On? June 24, 2021 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments by Simon Malinowski In all of the excitement over New York’s passage of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA), one of the things that often gets lost is that legalization was just the first step towards the issuance of… Read More→