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HARVEST TIME: 
Jason Calderon, CEO of Bonsai Buds LLC in Exeter, tends to mature marijuana plants in the grow room 
that are ready to be dried. 
PBN PHOTO/
ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Buzz kill? As R.I. prepares to expand cannabis licenses, sector’s future...

The last few years have been a struggle for Karen Ballou, owner of ­CultivatingRI LLC. She’s been waiting for state regulators to assemble the framework...

Better late than never on cannabis regs

Statewide expansion of recreational marijuana sales is finally nearing approval, three years after lawmakers approved retail sales in the state. The law allows the state...

Cannabis shops have incentive to fit in

Retail cannabis shops will be appearing in more Providence neighborhoods, whether businesses already there want them or not. That doesn’t mean businesses and others opposed...

Cannabis revenue uncertain

Rhode Island has given five retail dispensaries a significant head start in the state’s nascent recreational marijuana industry. An argument can be made those dispensaries,...
THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND is seeking to create a lottery system to grant six new licenses for medical-marijuana dispensaries by May 14. / AP FILE PHOTO/JULIO CORTEZ

A lot is riding on cannabis license lottery

With Rhode Island poised to issue licenses for six new cannabis dispensaries, some applicants say the selection process will hamper the chances of experienced...

Is it time for Rhode Island to legalize adult recreational marijuana...

A year ago, Statehouse Democratic leaders made it clear weeks before lawmakers opened the 2020 legislative session that they were not ready to support...
SETH BOCK, CEO of Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth, one of three regulated marijuana dispensaries in the state, walks among marijuana plants at his Newport facility in 2018. / PBN FILE PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Proposed R.I. medical marijuana regulations call for lottery, new zones for...

PROVIDENCE – Proposed regulations for Rhode Island’s medical marijuana industry that were unveiled Thursday seek to limit growth to six new dispensaries in specific...
SHOWING OFF: Beth Charlebois, co-owner of Cultivating RI, a cultivation center located in West Warwick that grows marijuana for the state’s medical-marijuana program, shows the various stages of growth. State lawmakers are expected to approve an expansion of the state's medical-marijuana program. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Do you support expansion of Rhode Island’s medical-marijuana program?

House Democratic leaders did not support Gov. Gina M. Raimondo's proposal to allow recreational marijuana sales to adults but they do back an expansion...
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