Tag: Office Of Cannabis Regulation
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...
Cannabis cultivator’s request for relief from regulator’s ‘administrative hold’ denied
WARWICK – A Providence Superior Court judge denied a local cannabis cultivator’s request for an injunctive relief from state regulator’s “administrative hold” over the...
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...
R.I. tax income from recreational cannabis trails projections by 25%
Rhode Island’s budding recreational marijuana industry has a marketing problem. Just ask Jonathan Leighton, general manager of Mother Earth Wellness.
“Most people in Rhode Island...
5 compassion centers licensed to sell adult use marijuana starting Dec....
PROVIDENCE – Five licensed medical marijuana compassion centers have received hybrid retail licenses from the state and will be allowed to sell adult use...
A GROWING WORKFORCE: New labor pipeline emerging for legalized recreational cannabis
Celia Kinneary entered Johnson & Wales University’s culinary program with a grand vision of opening her own bakery and brewery someday, but now those...
Five medical marijuana dispensaries selected for licenses
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of Cannabis Regulation selected five medical marijuana dispensary applicants to receive licenses to operate during its lottery held at...
R.I. to hold lottery for five medical marijuana dispensary licenses on...
WARWICK – Two years after state lawmakers approved the expansion of Rhode Island’s medical marijuana dispensaries from three to nine, a lottery will be...
As R.I. cannabis industry grows, so does unionization
As the cannabis industry is poised to expand in Rhode Island, the move to unionize its workers is gaining momentum.
The latest example: Workers at...
Green Peaks Analytical becomes R.I.’s first licensed medical marijuana lab
PROVIDENCE – Green Peaks Analytical has been licensed as Rhode Island's first medical marijuana sampling and testing laboratory, according to the R.I. Department of...
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