As we previously covered in these pages, the story of New York's adult-use cannabis legalization is a long and tortured one. After numerous false starts, the Marihuana Regulation & Taxation Act (MRTA).
Over 50 years ago President Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” leaving housewives over the country proclaiming marijuana to be the devil’s lettuce and urging sweet Billy to steer clear of.
On August 17th, 2022, The First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine last year, which held that the residency requirement found under Maine's Medical Marijuana Act was unconstitutional.
A Maine law requiring all owners of medical marijuana businesses to be residents of the state was recently struck down by the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.