Tag: Cannabis Control Commission
Ordinance allowing more cannabis shops in Providence clears City Plan Commission
PROVIDENCE – Some parts of the city could get a little greener.
The City Plan Commission unanimously voted Tuesday to recommend that the City Council...
Cannabis panel’s report on audit findings sent to McKee, General Assembly
PROVIDENCE – The Cannabis Control Commission on Friday submitted a report to Gov. Daniel J. McKee and the General Assembly on the findings of...
Cannabis cultivators across R.I. loaded with product, audit finds
PROVIDENCE – A recently conducted audit of the state’s cultivator license moratorium and its effects on the 65 licensees showed the industry has plenty...
State marijuana growers making more campaign donations in hopes of cutting...
Spencer Blier was expelled from his first college for smoking weed, then spent the next decade as a perpetual University of Rhode Island student,...
R.I. cannabis businesses take in $105M during first year of legal recreational...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island cannabis sales hit a combined $105 million in the first 12 months after the launch of legal recreational sales, according...
State officials announce picks for cannabis advisory board
PROVIDENCE – State leaders charged with appointing the 11 voting members of the Cannabis Advisory Board, which will advise the recently created Cannabis Control...
Dispensary challenges labor provisions of recreational marijuana law
Amid growing tensions with its workers over labor standards and unionization, a Portsmouth marijuana dispensary is taking aim at the state’s recreational cannabis law.
Greenleaf...
McKee signs bills establishing Juneteenth state holiday, cannabis marketing
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island billboards advertising recreational marijuana will soon be donning images of homegrown buds, thanks to a new law that local pot...
R.I. Senate confirms cannabis regulatory panel
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed three members to the state’s Cannabis Control Commission, which will be charged with crafting...
Marijuana market needs level playing field
What kind of recreational marijuana market does Rhode Island want? Should growth be market driven or tightly controlled and regulated?
The state’s slow rollout of...
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