Delaware's saga of recreational marijuana market delays continues after six months of waiting for federal background checks for license holders to come through.
The Office of the Marijuana Commissioner (OMC) announced the lottery winners for the 110 available licenses for cultivation, manufacturing, testing and social equity retail facilities in October 2024 and announced the remaining 15 open retail winners in December 202.
While those winners are often referred to as "license holders," they have not yet been issued their conditional license by OMC to begin operations.
OMC has been waiting for the FBI to give the "all clear" on the lottery winners in order to issue those licenses, but Majority Whip and State Rep. Ed Osienski (D-Newark) says communication between the FBI and OMC on what has been causing those delays had been sparse up until recently.
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