You certainly wouldn’t want to be on the public facing side of the OCM this week..
Syracuse.com
Complaints are piling up around the Office of Cannabis Management’s selection process for general licenses, and not just from those stakeholders who are suing the state over this portion of the industry rollout.
Legacy operators, minority women and industry consultants are calling the OCM’s licensing scheme “alarming” and say the agency has again shifted the goalposts at the last minute.
“Honestly, at this point, I just feel like giving up,” said Christian Torres, a native New Yorker and longtime legacy operator who applied for a microbusiness license. “There are so many issues happening.”
A New York State Supreme Court judge will decide today whether to issue an injunction, which would again halt the Empire State’s legal cannabis rollout, as part of yet another lawsuit filed by plaintiffs who applied for retail licenses.
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