A Rhode Island cannabis retailer filed a lawsuit against the state, arguing that its adult-use legalization law unfairly forces stores to enter “oppressive” labor peace agreements with its employees.
Portsmouth’s Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center, which has been operating in the medical marijuana market since 2013, named state regulators and Cannabis Control Commission members in the suit, according to The Boston Globe.
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Unions have been rapidly recruiting cannabis workers across the United States and Canada.
But Rhode Island could be the only state to require marijuana retailers to do so in order to be licensed to sell adult-use cannabis.
Passed in May 2022,the Rhode Island Cannabis Act legalizing recreational sales includes a clause stating that licenses are contingent on marijuana retailers signing labor agreements with a “bona fide labor organization.”
Greenleaf’s employees voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 328 union in 2021 but
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