Under this new state order, WNWF could potentially have a total of one cultivation facility, three medical marijuana dispensaries, and nine additional
recreational marijuana licenses.
Not exact matches
Pete Gendron, a
licensed marijuana grower who advised state regulators on compliance and enforcement, said the reports» numbers are guesswork, and furthermore are outdated because they don't take into account the
marijuana now being sold in Oregon's legal
recreational market.
Licensed and regulated pot shops are doing a booming business in Colorado after voters approved
recreational marijuana use.
Leafly, a Yelp - like website for the legal cannabis industry, has a list of California cities in which legal
recreational marijuana will soon be going on sale, though the site notes that not all dispensaries are likely to be fully
licensed by Jan. 1.
But, entrepreneurs hoping to land their own
licenses will also have to make sure that they have the approval of their local county or municipality, and the Los Angeles Times notes that most of the cities in California have still not approved
recreational marijuana sales.
Only
licensed medical
marijuana dispensaries are allowed to apply for
licenses for
recreational sales.
Since the first legal,
recreational marijuana grows were
licensed in early 2014, the state has conducted 45 investigations of pesticide misuse, said Justin Nordhorn, chief of enforcement with the Liquor and Cannabis Board.
Proposition 64 legalized the
recreational use of
marijuana for adults aged 21 years or older, permitting smoking in a private home or at a business
licensed for on - site
marijuana consumption.
In January 2018, state and local authorities will begin issuing
licenses for the sale of legal
recreational marijuana.
The Oregon and Alaska measures will legalize
recreational marijuana possession and usher in state -
licensed retail pot shops similar to those that opened this year in Washington state and Colorado, which became the first to allow cannabis use for pleasure under 2012 voter initiatives.
If the new legalized
recreational marijuana legislation has similar provisions to the existing Regulations with respect to grounds for refusal of a
license, dispensary owners could face serious ramifications for non-compliance with the current law.
In Maryland, for example, legislators in the state house and Senate have proposed a system of
recreational marijuana retail
licensing in which all sales would be subject to a 9 % tax.