More than two years ago, New York passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) to much fanfare. The rocky rollout of the program by the of New York Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), including the challenges to its conditional adult-use retail dispensary (CAURD) program, and the complaints being voiced by cultivators (who are sitting on thousands of pounds of cannabis they cannot legally sell because only a handful of dispensaries have opened so far), received a lot of press over the last year.