Southampton’s local weed laws just went up in smoke as state cannabis officials blasted the town’s overly stringent rules as illegal and designed to intentionally block legal dispensaries from ever opening.

The unanimous decision by the state’s Cannabis Control Board on Monday effectively torched Southampton’s local permitting scheme — a system that state-licensed cannabis business owners Marquis Hayes and Kim Stetz, of Brown Budda dispensary, sued the town over. 4

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They had accused town officials of deliberately weaponizing zoning laws and permit requirements to stall their state-approved business and keep legal cannabis operations out of the tony Long Island coastal town.

“The board’s action delivers a resounding rebuke to local officials who once claimed, ‘we live here,

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