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State regulators are moving to revoke the license of one of the top marijuana growing businesses, alleging it failed to disclose an owner and had a significant amount of unregistered cannabis.
The R.I. Office of Cannabis Regulation has ordered STJ LLC, known better as Fire Ganja, to appear at a show-cause hearing on Sept. 15 to discuss why regulators are seeking to revoke its cultivator license.
The regulators issued the order on Aug. 16 after they learned earlier in the year the Warwick business had 1,473 untagged plants, 1,507 ounces of untagged flower, 2,038 ounces of untagged hash and 276 ounces of untagged concentrate, according to documents Target 12 obtained through a public records request.
Regulators initially discovered the irregularities at Fire Ganja in June after an owner reached out asking for permission to log so-called “mother plants” into a state system called “Metrc,” which tracks all marijuana products from the time they are seeds or clones until the moment they are sold at retail.
Mother plants are non-flowering cannabis plants that allow growers to use a specimen – rather than a seed – to create new plants, and they’re all required to be logged into the system.
“I did not have my mother plants logged in the system as I constantly kill them and start new ones,” Fire Ganja principal owner Mark Laraway wrote in an email to regulators on June 12. “I now need permission to log 100 mother plants into Metrc so I can then create plant batches for the clones I take.”
The email spurred state officials to do an on-site inspection at Fire Ganja on June 21, which is when they discovered the plethora of unregistered products that was tagged and destroyed.
Read more at
https://www.wpri.com/target-12/ri-regulators-move-to-revoke-license-of-a-top-marijuana-grower/
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Sean Hocking
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