New York Marijuana Shops Sue After Being Allowed to Open too Close to Schools

A group of marijuana dispensaries in New York sued the state on Friday after cannabis regulators admitted they accidentally allowed pot shops to open too close to schools, putting the future of the businesses in jeopardy.

The lawsuit asks a state Supreme Court judge in Albany to rule that the marijuana shops’ locations remain legal and to prevent the state from taking any enforcement action against them.

The case came a few weeks after the state’s legal marijuana office told about 150 existing or proposed cannabis shops that regulators had been misreading a state law that requires dispensaries to be a certain distance from schools.

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