Rhode Island regulators might soon license 24 new recreational marijuana stores now that the state has signed off on new industry regulations.
The state expects “thousands” of applications for the new retail permits, including six reserved for social equity applicants, Cannabis Control Commission Chair Kim Ahern told the Providence Journal.
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However, no date has been set for when applications will be accepted, according to the Rhode Island Current.
Adult-use sales began in Rhode Island in December 2022.
However, recreational sales have to date been restricted to the seven existing vertically integrated “compassion centers,” as medical marijuana dispensaries were identified when Rhode Island launched its MMJ market in 2009.
Any expansion of the state’s adult-use industry was on hold until the state Cannabis Control
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