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State marijuana growers making more campaign donations in hopes of cutting...

Economic Activity 02/19/2024

Spencer Blier was expelled from his first college for smoking weed, then spent the next decade as a perpetual University of Rhode Island student,...

BLAZING A TRAIL: As Rhode Island’s cannabis sector has gained traction, attorney Megan Sheehan has been growing her legal practice, Green Path Legal, right along with it.  PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Leaf and law: Sheehan combines her passions

Business Women 08/04/2023

Life lessons come from all directions. Consider the takeaway for Megan Sheehan, a Barrington lawyer: “My great aunties told me, ‘I just discovered vape...

R.I. cannabis commission schedules public ‘listening sessions’

Government 07/14/2023

PROVIDENCE - The R.I. Cannabis Control Commission wants to hear from you. The newly formed, three-person panel has scheduled four public “listening sessions” across the...

JUMPED THE BORDER: Edward Dow, CEO of Massachusetts-based Solar Cannabis Co., has opened a dispensary in Warwick. He’s seen sales in Rhode Island growing steadily while business in Massachusetts has declined.  PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Cannabis complications: Promising marijuana industry falling short of expectations

Cover Story 06/09/2023

Dr. Jason Iannuccilli has invested a lot in his lab in the past year. Like many entrepreneurs in the cannabis industry, the co-founder of PureVita...

Five Questions With: Adina Birnbaum

Financial Services 05/29/2023

Banking and financing can be a tough row to hoe for marijuana growers. Though weed has been legalized by state law in some form...

Pawtucket marijuana dispensary removes billboards along I-95

Entrepreneurship 05/22/2023

PROVIDENCE – A Pawtucket marijuana dispensary has removed the three advertising billboards it had erected along Interstate 95, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported Monday. The R.I....

McKee nominates 3 for R.I. Cannabis Control Commission

Economy 05/17/2023

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Wednesday announced his three appointments to the R.I. Cannabis Control Commission, which will be tasked with regulatory...

CANNABIS PRODUCTS are on display at Mother Earth Wellness Center in Pawtucket, one of the Rhode Island locations that started selling recreational marijuana on Dec. 1. PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Should Rhode Island be moving faster to expand its retail cannabis...

Government 03/31/2023

When Gov. Daniel J. McKee signed the Rhode Island Cannabis Act into law last May, it gave him a deadline. He had 40 days to...

TAKING THE LEAD: Swansea-based BayCoast Bank is one of the few banks that has offered financial services to cannabis-related businesses in Massachusetts, and BayCoast Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Risk Officer Gary J. Vierra says the bank is doing the same in Rhode Island as retail cannabis sales ramp up. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Many banks remain leery despite legalized cannabis

Entrepreneurship 12/09/2022

As recreational cannabis sales take off in Rhode Island, opening and running a business still isn’t exactly simple for these merchants. For one, a delayed...