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PROVIDENCE Former Centrals Fall Mayor James Diossa, a leading candidate in the lieutenant governor sweepstakes, has resigned from the board of a company seeking one of the first new marijuana dispensary licenses available in Rhode Island in years.
In response to Journal inquiries, Diossa spokesman Christopher Hunter on Thursday provided a copy of Diossa s January 8 letter of resignation. I hereby resign my position on the Board of Directors of the Edward O. Hawkins Center, Inc. effective on today’s date, Diossa wrote on the day president-elect Joe Biden introduced some of his cabinet nominees, including Governor Gina Raimondo, on stage in Wilmington, Delaware.
David Spradin is the CEO of a California-based marijuana company called Perfect Union.
It has 14 marijuana stores between Los Angeles and Sacramento, six stores in New Mexico and has had stores in Oregon and Washington, says Rick McAuliffe, a Rhode Island lobbyist who now also serves as a director for Spradin’s new local affiliate: Perfect Union-RI.
The company and 27 other businesses all filed applications last month for a chance to run one of six new medical marijuana dispensaries planned for Rhode Island.
While Spradin’s local venture incorporated just in November, the Californian has been around, buying up one marijuana cultivation operation, in Warwick, and purchasing a Providence site for a possible second indicators of the interest some outside investors have with Rhode Island’s booming, multimillion-dollar marijuana industry.