Retail cannabis applicants vent after ruling stalls an already ‘slow as molasses’ license rollout

By: Christopher Shea

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: April 13, 2026

Words: 1,009

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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On the edge of Providence’s Federal Hill and West End neighborhoods is a former industrial building still filled with old machinery and abandoned pallets.

It’s the very spot a group of entrepreneurs had envisioned for a cannabis dispensary run by a diverse worker cooperative. PVD Flowers secured the location in October in order to qualify for the state’s retail license application pool by the deadline last December.

Applications like theirs were being screened with the …

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