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Jun 2022
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Maine Dispensary Application Opportunities

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Maine accepts applications for marijuana stores and other cannabis businesses on an ongoing basis! Apply here

Why is it important?

Each state has its own time frames for accepting dispensary licensing.  Some are always receiving applications and others have specific time windows for applications. If there is a specific time window you want to make sure to prepare your application in time, so you don't miss the deadline! Thankfully Maine accepts applications on an ongoing basis!

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Recreational:  18  691   Office of Marijuana Policy

2.6.2 Application Processing. An application for a conditional license or active license for a sample collector considered incomplete until the Department is in possession of all required forms, supplemental information, criminal history record checks and any other requirements listed in Section 2. If, in the course of processing the application, the Department discovers that any required forms, supplemental information or criminal history record checks are incomplete, the Department may ask the applicant to supply the missing information, and the Department has 90 days from the date the Department provides notice to the applicant that the application is complete to review and act upon the application. The Department shall, however, avoid unreasonable delays in the case of inadvertent omission of material that is not central to its review of the merits of the application for a conditional license or active license for a sample collector.

2.6.3 Application Review.

  1. For the purposes of processing applications for marijuana establishments, the Department, pursuant to 28-B MRS §205, shall apply an objective standard to establishing whether an applicant has satisfied the marijuana establishment licensing requirements, specifically the satisfaction of general licensing criteria and the submission of all required documents, forms and fees and the subsequent issuance of provisional and active licenses.
  2. Within 90 days from the date the Department provides notice to the applicant that the application is complete, the Department shall, as applicable:

             1. Deny the license application;

             2. Issue a non-renewable conditional license for a cultivation facility, products manufacturing facility, testing facility or marijuana store valid for up to one year; or

             3. Issue an active license for a sample collector valid for one year.