One Year After Inspecting Its Farm, New York Cannabis Regulator Tells State’S First Social Equity Medical Licensee Its Crop Can No Longer Be Sold | Region

VERNON, N.Y – September 29, 2026 – [ KOREWIRE ]

On September 22, 2025, inspectors from the New York State Office of Cannabis Management walked a 55-acre outdoor cannabis farm in Oneida County. On September 22, 2026, one year to the day later, OCM’s Deputy Counsel wrote to the farm’s owners that, based on the condition of the cannabis, the agency could not permit it to be sold. In the twelve months between those two dates, OCM never held the hearing the company asked for, never issued a destruction order, never seized the product and never tested it.

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