From Carl Campanile and Vaughn Golden of the New York Post:

The Office of Cannabis Management, in a Monday memo, bluntly admitted it miscalculated the distance between the licensed weed sellers and schools, which must be 500-feet apart under state law.

The law was not ambiguous at all. The so-called “Office of Cannabis Management,” which presumably manages legalized drug dealing in New York, now claims it allowed 152 brick and mortar drug dealing shops to open closer to schools than what was permitted under the laws legalizing licensed marjuana dealing in New York City. “OCM measured compliance as ranging from the entrance door of a school to the entrance of a marijuana shop, misapplying the 500-foot distance requirement.” That was a choice made in clear conflict with the law. The solution to this problem is entirely predictable:

OCM and Gov. Kathy Hochul will request new state legislation to amend the marijuana law to fix the mess, or else the licensed pot sellers’ businesses could go up in smoke — conceivably having to shut down or relocate.

If I did not know any better, it sounds like OCM did not agree with the law requiring brick and mortar marijuana dealers to be a certain distance away from schools and deliberately violated the law, which conveniently gives the Governor and legislators the pretext to change the law that they did not like in the first place.