In a misguided attempt to eliminate illegal cannabis businesses from the Town of Cheektowaga New York, The Roaring 420s Lounge - a market research company - was included in a town-wide revocation of occupancy permits granted to cannabis businesses and cannabis-ancillary businesses. While that revocation acted on a guidance expressed by the Office of Cannabis Management, it was incorrect interpretation of that guidance to include The Roaring 420s Lounge.

The claim by the Town Fire Inspector is that a market research company studying cannabis products requires a license from the New York State Office of Cannabis Management. There is no such license category, nor is one intended. In it's current form, the business model of our trade association does not in any fashion sell Cannabis and thus this unsubstantiated allegation is patently false.

As a company that does not sell marijuana, even behind the sale of a sticker, but rather one that studies the effects of safe, tested, products on willing adult consumers, the community of volunteers, producers, and consumers that makes up the Lounge wishes to formally petition the Board of the Town of Cheektowaga to overturn this decision. We implore you to remove the only obstacle being placed between a community of over two thousand local residents who desperately need to learn about cannabis and the cannabis industry, discern which of the incredible amount of legacy operators that exist in the field offer safe products, and influence the development of a multi-billion dollar industry, and their access to a safe and controlled location to do that.