Open A Dispensary In Rhode Island - Dispensary Permits Cannabis Consulting and Templates

Status: In Rhode Island, qualifying patients may possess and use medical marijuana. State licensed businesses may grow, process, transport, and dispense medical marijuana.

CBD Program	Medical Program	Recreational Program	Are Applications Open?
Legal	Legal	Not legal	Open through 12/15/20

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Number of Rhode Island Marijuana Business Licenses Licenses Available

Dispensaries	Cultivation	Manufacturing/Processing	Transportation
6	0	0	0

Every state has different marijuana laws- they are regulated by state, not federal law. Some states allow marijuana for recreational and medical use, some states only allow medical use, and some only allow certain low THC products for medical use. Most states limit the number of licenses they will grant and the window to apply for them. Getting licenced is never simple- there are very specific requirements and guidelines that differ by state and its usually highly competitive, which is why most successful applicants work with consultants like Dispensary Permits to help guide them. We highly advise you read the guidelines below thoroughly and then consider working with a consultant or using our templates and guides.
You can read the full text of the Rhode Island Marijuana Business Licenses law at: http://sos.ri.gov

Rhode Island Medical Marijuana Compassion Center License Guidelines

A compassion center license may be obtained by a not-for-profit corporation to acquire, possess, cultivate, manufacture, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, or dispense marijuana to registered qualifying patients and their registered primary caregivers who have designated the compassion center as one of their primary caregivers, subject to R.I. Gen. Laws § 21-28.6-12.

Three (3) medical marijuana compassion centers have been approved by the state, and six (6) additional compassion center licenses are available to apply for. Unlike the existing licensed compassion centers, the six new ones will only be permitted to operate as a dispensary (not cultivate or process), at least initially. The state began accepting applications for the additional licenses on July 17, 2020 and will accept applications through December 15, 2020. There is a nonrefundable application fee of $10,000 and annual license fee of $500,000.

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Rhode Island Medical Marijuana Cooperative Cultivation License Guidelines

A cooperative cultivation license may be obtained by two (2) or more qualifying cardholders to cooperatively cultivate marijuana in residential or non-residential locations subject to R.I. Gen. Laws § 21- 28.6-14.

The state is accepting applications for cooperative cultivations with no known deadline for submission.

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Rhode Island Medical Marijuana Medical Marijuana Cultivator License Guidelines

A medical marijuana cultivator license may be obtained by a person or entity to acquire, possess, manufacture, cultivate, deliver, or transfer medical marijuana to licensed compassion centers, to another licensed medical marijuana cultivator, subject to R.I. Gen. Laws § 21-28.6-16. A licensed medical marijuana cultivator shall not be a primary caregiver cardholder registered with any qualifying patient(s) and shall not hold a cooperative cultivation license.

The state has approved 74 cultivator applications and is no longer accepting applications. Of the 74 cultivator applications approved, 51 have received their final licenses to operate as of January 2020.

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The History of Rhode Island Marijuana Business Licenses Marijuana

In January of 2006, Rhode Island legalized the possession and use of medical marijuana for qualifying patients in the state. A registered Rhode Island compassion center may acquire, possess, cultivate, manufacture, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, or dispense marijuana to registered qualifying patients and their registered primary caregivers who have designated the compassion center as one of their primary caregivers. On April 19, 2013 Rhode Island’s first medical marijuana dispensary, The Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center in Providence, opened.

In July 2019, Governor Gina Raimondo signed the state’s $9.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2020 into law. The budget proposal includes language that allows the state to issue six additional vertically-integrated medical marijuana business licenses for the cultivation, manufacturing and dispensing of medical marijuana products. The application fee for these centers was increased to $10,000 each and the licensing fee was increased to $500,000 each. The state has not yet released additional information regarding when applications will become available.

New regulations governing the state’s medical marijuana businesses were released on March 5, 2020, and will go into effect on March 25, 2020. The department then announced on July 17, 2020, that they have begun accepting applications for the six additional medical marijuana dispensary licenses through December 15, 2020.

Licenses will be awarded through a lottery system, although, the department has not yet set a date for the lottery to take place.

Qualifying Medical Conditions: Cancer or the treatment of this condition, Glaucoma or the treatment of this condition, Positive status for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or the treatment of this condition, Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or the treatment of this condition, Hepatitis C or the treatment of this condition. A chronic or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following: Cachexia or wasting syndrome, Severe, debilitating, chronic pain, Severe nausea, Seizures, including but not limited to those characteristic of epilepsy, Severe and persistent muscle spasms, including but not limited to those characteristic of multiple sclerosis or Crohn’s disease, Agitation related to Alzheimer’s Disease.