Editor's Note: Litigious America is going to run rampant while the country struggles to gain a foothold on newly established ground–ground where marijuana grows legally. Courthouses are going to have their hands full while states and municipalities develop extensive regulations that close every loophole that might exist … and while anti-marijuana citizens continue to try to block legally established businesses.
Four abutters of a medical marijuana facility in York have filed a court appeal attempting to shut it down until the town grants permission for its operation.
Plaintiff Michael Briggs of Emus Way originally filed an appeal to the York Appeals Board and lost in a decision by that board on Aug. 13. He wanted the Appeals Board to deny an appeal filed by 17 White Birch Lane warehouse owner Robert Grant contesting a town notice of violation for allowing medical pot to be grown there prior to getting Planning Board approval for a change of use. The Appeals Board ruled marijuana production was manufacturing, and therefore did not represent a change of use for the warehouse.
