Rhode Island Marijuana Business Licenses
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 | closed |
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Number of Rhode Island Marijuana Business Licenses Licenses Available
Dispensaries | Cultivation | Manufacturing/Processing | Transportation |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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.
There is a nonrefundable application fee of $10,000 and annual license fee of $500,000. The state is not currently accepting applications for additional compassion centers.
RECOMMENDED RHODE ISLAND MARIJUANA BUSINESS PLANS FOR RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL MARIJUANA COMPASSION CENTER APPLICATION:
- Rhode Island Application Guide & Checklist
- Rhode Island Compassion Center Application Template Package
- Business & Operations Plan Template
- Cultivation Plan Template
- Manufacturing/Processing Plan Template
- Environmental Plan Template
- Financial Plan Template
- Fire Safety Plan Template
- Inventory Control Plan Template
- Patient Education Plan Template
- Patient Recordkeeping Plan Template
- Product Safety Plan Template
- Security Plan Template
- Staffing Plan Template
- Suitability of Proposed Facility Plan Template
- Transportation Plan Template
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.
RECOMMENDED RHODE ISLAND MARIJUANA BUSINESS PLANS FOR RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL MARIJUANA COOPERATIVE CULTIVATION APPLICATION:
- Rhode Island Application Guide & Checklist
- Business & Operations Plan Template
- Cultivation Plan Template
- Manufacturing/Processing Plan Template
- Environmental Plan Template
- Financial Plan Template
- Fire Safety Plan Template
- Inventory Control Plan Template
- Product Safety Plan Template
- Security Plan Template
- Staffing Plan Template
- Suitability of Proposed Facility Plan Template
- Transportation Plan Template
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.
RECOMMENDED RHODE ISLAND MARIJUANA BUSINESS PLANS FOR RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL MARIJUANA MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATOR APPLICATION:
- Rhode Island Application Guide & Checklist
- Business & Operations Plan Template
- Cultivation Plan Template
- Manufacturing/Processing Plan Template
- Environmental Plan Template
- Financial Plan Template
- Fire Safety Plan Template
- Inventory Control Plan Template
- Security Plan Template
- Staffing Plan Template
- Suitability of Proposed Facility Plan Template
- Transportation Plan Template
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 accepted applications for six additional medical marijuana dispensary licenses from July 17, 2020 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.