Southampton\u2019s pot shop regulations are \u201cunreasonably impracticable\u201d \u2014 and flat-out illegal, the State Attorney General\u2019s Office wrote in a recent letter to a federal judge, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
The blistering new letter, obtained by The Post, declared that the tony town has no authority<\/a> to pile on permits, fees and zoning hurdles, which directly conflict with the state\u2019s cannabis laws, according to AG Letitia James\u2019 office.<\/p>\n The missive was sent Nov. 28 to US District Judge Judge Joanna Seybert, who is overseeing the case between the ritzy coastal town and the defiantly-opened Brown Budda cannabis dispensary.<\/p>\n The town is accused of rigging its local zoning code in an effort to stop pot shops from opening in Southampton, even allegedly trying to stick Brown Budda with a $40,000 bill for a sidewalk it didn\u2019t need, according to sources close to the shop and the AG\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n Southampton is accused of rigging its local zoning code against pot shops. Marquis Hayes\/Facebook<\/p>\n A portion of the Southampton Town Code, \u00a7330-162.26, \u201cis preempted and invalid,\u201d the letter read.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe New York State Cannabis Control Board has determined the provision makes the operation of licensed retail cannabis dispensaries \u2018unreasonably impracticable,\u2019\u201d it added.<\/p>\n That section of the Southampton Town Code slapped already-licensed dispensaries with 17 extra rules \u2014 including costly special permits, distance limits, design demands, zoning caps and other hoops no other businesses in the town had to jump through, according to the letter.\u00a0<\/p>\n