Vengeance is Sought For Losers of New York’s Medical Marijuana Lottery

 

In great hopes of the seething aftermath that is likely to follow the New York State Department of Health’s choice of just five companies to grow and supply the entire state of New York with medical marijuana, one Long Island attorney states he is prepared to step into the ring on behalf of that business that get denied.

When New York announces the winners of the medical marijuana licenses later this month, attorney David Marquez thinks there will be “38 pissed off companies” ready to duke it out with an establishment that cost them millions of dollars and then left them with nothing to show for it. Earlier this week, Marquez told the Village Voice to spread the word to the losing members of the NY cannabis community: “If you believe you’ve been discriminated against in the licensing process, come see us.”

Although, a vicious backlash of angry applicants is possibly only days away from exploding throughout New York, a swelling of corporate behavior that will undoubtedly end in litigious revenge. All of the business that are showing interest in cultivating ad selling cannabis in the state have been forced to come up with the funds to the sum of a ridiculous amount of cash hay have been required to put up plainly for a chance to play the game.

From the start, business that were interested were told to come up with a $10,000 non-refundable fee just to file an application, and face the initial fee then another $200,000 if determined worthy to move forward. This in addition to submitting background checks, banking records, and a long list of other high-cost prerequisites to guarantee a religious display of only deep pockets across the table. Yet, to top it off, New York only provided these businesses 30 days to get their shop in order.
There are assumptions that in the days following the state’s revealing the winners of the licenses, a number of politicians, businessmen and marijuana lobbyists will be discovered slumped over steering wheels throughout states with bullets in their heads. That is how fierce the competition has become in reference to this deal it is a structure developed to cater only to the wealthy and those with heavy political pull. Even Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who backed the Compassionate Care Act, states that if the state is not able to support its licensing decision, the accusation and allegations will be infinite.

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