Court rules against town's award of marijuana license
A Superior Court judge has blocked a move by local officials to preemptively issue an adult-use marijuana license before voters have their say in a June referendum.
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A Superior Court judge has blocked a move by local officials to preemptively issue an adult-use marijuana license before voters have their say in a June referendum.
York County Superior Court Justice Richard Mulhern said the town should delay its licensing decision until after a June referendum. Issuing the license before then, he said, would make the vote 'effectively meaningless.'
Caretaker Eileen Ceccanti has been preventing town staff from entering 99 Freeman St. ever since a fire badly damaged the 19th-century home May 13.