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100 NYC Cannabis Dispensaries Must Relocate Now!
NEW YORK (WABC) -- More than 100 legal cannabis dispensaries in New York may need to close or relocate due to how close they are to schools. The problem is, the people who took those measurements got it wrong, not the businesses.
Dispensaries were approved to open if they were at least 500 feet away from schools, but state officials admitted they miscalculated that distance and scores of dispensaries are being told to move.
If they don't move, owners won't be able to get their dispensary licenses renewed.
When New York State started licensing dispensaries like Alto on Chambers Street, part of the goal was to right the wrongs of the past.
But now the agency that regulates the dispensaries claims it needs to right a newly-discovered wrong.
The Office Of Cannabis Management admits it made the mistake of licensing dozens of dispensaries that are within 500 feet of schools by measuring the distance to the door instead of the property line.
In a memo to its staff, it said "this approach did not align with" the law.
Now dispensary owners are wondering why they have to move.
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