An appeals court judge has sided with Cambridge in its pursuit to give certified economic empowerment applicants a head start on opening cannabis businesses in the city.
Revolutionary Clinics, which has been selling medical cannabis in Cambridge since 2018 and wants to co-locate the business and add adult-use sales, sued the city in October over an ordinance that includes a two-year moratorium, allowing only economic empowerment businesses to receive a permit for a recreational cannabis store.
In January, a Middlesex Superior Court judge agreed with the cannabis company’s motion for preliminary injunction and ordered that the city could no longer enforce the moratorium or take any action to prevent Revolutionary Clinics from applying to convert its location into a co-use medical and adult-use cannabis dispensary.
But on Friday, the appeals court vacated that decision.
“As the Superior Court clearly erred in the grounds relied upon in granting relief, I reverse the preliminary injunction,” wrote Associate Justice Joseph M. Ditkoff in a decision Friday.
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