News Summary

• State cannabis officials blasted the town’s overly stringent rules as illegal and designed to intentionally block legal dispensaries from ever opening.
• The ruling could have sweeping implications beyond just the Hamptons, setting a statewide precedent that towns can’t use local zoning laws to get in the way of state-licensed businesses.
• The decision affirms that state law – not local politics – governs cannabis regulation and that municipalities cannot rewrite the rules to fit their own agendas.
• “I believed I was about to seize the American Dream.
• Instead, the Town of Southampton turned it into a nightmare,” said Brown Budda's founder.