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A well-connected River North cannabis dispensary has filed suit to try to keep a competitor from opening its doors nearby. GRI Holdings LLC, which operates a Green Rose store, filed suit this week to prevent Bio-Pharm LLC from opening a store two blocks away in the former Rainforest Cafe at Clark and Ohio streets. The suit is against Bio-Pharm and the Illinois Department of Financial and .
A politically connected firm pushing to open dozens of pot shops in Illinois is suing to prevent a dispensary from opening in the former River North Rainforest Cafe and to restrict how close minority-owned cannabis shops can be to one another.
The lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County by GRI Holdings claims that the proposed Consume Cannabis dispensary at 605 N. Clark St. violates state law by opening within 1,500 feet of its Green Rose Dispensary.