While the application process for medical marijuana dispensaries to start selling adult-use recreational marijuana opened up a couple of weeks ago on June 7, it’s still up in the air when these dispensaries will actually be able to open their doors to people without medical cards.
Dozens of medical dispensaries, cultivators, processors, and testing labs have been issued provisional licenses, but they still have to prove they completed the requirements from the Division of Cannabis Control, including an updated POS system that differentiates between medical and recreational purchases, and proving they have enough supply for medical marijuana patients.
Some dispensary owners said that the state told them recreational sales could begin as early as this week.
“They won’t let us know an actual date until the day-of though,” said Andy, an employee for the local dispensary, The Botanist. “We keep going back & forth. We don’t know exactly what to tell our patients or to those who keep calling in.”
Andy continued, “But we’ve staffed up our store and stocked up our store, just in case they do call us this week.”
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