Two Chicago firms vying for lucrative cannabis shop permits filed suit Monday in Cook County court claiming state officials wrongfully pushed them to give up additional spots in this week’s third and final licensing lottery.
The complaint, brought by Suite Greens LLC and So Baked Too LLC, doesn’t seek to upend the licensing rollout, like another pending suit in Cook County is trying to do. Instead, the applicant groups want the state to give them all the chances they initially earned in Thursday’s long-delayed drawing.
“It doesn’t make sense how they can delay a year and a half and come back more incompetent than when we started,” Britteney Kapri, who’s partnered in one of the suing firms, said of the state’s licensing efforts. “The whole process has just been so confusing and aggravating the whole time.”