As currently drafted, HB 2022 would allow up to 304 new pot retail stores and 200 new cannabis producing and processing businesses to open over the next eight years.
Right now, the state has capped retail licenses to allow only 556 cannabis retail stores statewide.
Wicks, the lead sponsor of HB 2022, said that when the state’s marijuana system began, officials were concerned mostly with processing license applications quickly. But, she said, “Nothing was implemented to ensure the limited number of licenses that were distributed were distributed in a way that restored the lives of families, of those most targeted by unfounded fears and subjective laws.”
That meant “licenses went
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