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Axel Bernabe helped craft the social justice-oriented licenses, known as the Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary — or CAURD — program, that launched New York’s adult-use marijuana industry.

Gothamist spoke to half a dozen CAURD license holders about what they could lose financially and emotionally after a New York judge indefinitely paused their business openings.

An effort is underway to quantify the chemistry, physics and human behavioral responses behind weed — to inform the next phase of cannabis use where it’s legalized, like New York.

Following a court ruling that curtailed weed licenses, hundreds of entrepreneurs in New York’s CAURD program were left off a state-selected list of exemptions.

But recently approved shops can still open.

Hundreds of New York cannabis entrepreneurs with dispensary licenses are stuck in limbo after a state judge delayed his decision on whether to lift an order blocking their stores from opening.

Following a lawsuit over disability rights, a state Supreme Court judge released an order on Monday that temporarily blocks the state from issuing new licenses or allowing new dispensaries to open.

It’s unclear whether other early licensees who have struggled with New York state’s slow rollout of the retail industry will be able to replicate this success.

This move is the first enforcement action Alvin Bragg’s office has announced as part of its strategy to target shop owners and landlords who are tied to multiple unlicensed cannabis shops.

The measure would fine landlords who lease to illicit smoke shops