A Rapid City medical marijuana dispensary wants help from the state Supreme Court in obtaining a license for another location.
The state Department of Health wants the business to pay another $5,000 fee and complete another application. The department also says the business should have taken the dispute to an administrative hearing before making its case in a courtroom.
The state's high court heard arguments on the issue Tuesday in Vermillion at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law.
The health department appealed a circuit court's ruling in favor of Puffy's, which operates two dispensaries in Rapid City but would like to open six more. Puffy's also has a dispensary in Sturgis.
Read more at The South Dakota Searchlight.