A Southampton marijuana dispensary can stay at its current location following a court order that reverses a recent review by the state's Office of Cannabis Management that reinterpreted whether dispensaries were complying with state school-distance requirements.

The OCM said it had previously told dispensaries they could not be located within 500 feet of a school as measured from door to door, but found in August that the law requires the distance to be measured from a school’s property line. The court order by Acting Supreme Court Judge Keri E. Savona, which is in place until Feb. 16, allows impacted licensees and applicants to move forward under the door-to-door rule.

"OCM welcomes this order because it gives cannabis entrepreneurs and communities the stability they need," said Felicia

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