Rhode Island: Delays lottery for new medical cannabis dispensaries

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Two years after state lawmakers approved an expansion of Rhode Island’s medical marijuana program from three dispensaries to nine, the state is still months away from completing the process to randomly select the six new stores.

A lottery to pick six marijuana dispensaries for licensure, originally pegged for early 2021, is in a “holding pattern” until at least August after one of the applicants appealed being deemed not qualified to participate, according to Matthew Santacroce, chief of the Office of Cannabis Regulation.

The state also received zero bids in its search for a contractor to conduct the lottery,...

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