The winning applicants for Rhode Island’s next two-dozen cannabis retail licenses could be selected through a lottery – but only after they are screened based on qualifications such as “ability and readiness for licensure” – under a proposal approved by the Rhode Island Cannabis Control Commission.
The three-member regulatory board unanimously approved a proposal presented Friday by Mariana Ormonde, the commission’s chief legal counsel, according to digital news site Rhode Island Current.
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Ormande said that under the hybrid selection process – license applicants would have to be deemed eligible before being enrolled in the lottery system – legal and economic challenges that dogged states such as Illinois, New Jersey and New York would be avoided.
Commission Chair Kimberly Ahern said during the
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