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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — In the 2022 midterm election, IM-27, a measure to legalize adult-use recreational marijuana failed with 52.9% of South Dakota voters in opposition.

This leaves South Dakota as it is today, with a burgeoning medical marijuana industry, and a number of businesses that were poised to move into the recreational market if it had been approved by voters.

Kittrick Jeffries, founder and CEO of Puffy’s dispensary, and a board member of the Cannabis Industry Association of South Dakota (CIASD) spoke with KELOLAND News on Friday about his business, the industry, and his own outlook on the failure of recreational marijuana in South Dakota.

On a personal note, Jeffries was disappointed in the failure of IM-27. “In just the immediate aftermath of the vote it was heartbreaking for a lot of our patients that couldn’t get access.”

Today, Nov. 11, 2022, is Veterans Day, a fact not missed by Jeffries.

“We have a lot of people that have reached out to us that have gone to see their VA doctor, who will not issue them a medical cannabis card because the VA is federally funded,” Jeffries said. “Having to talk to our veterans who can’t get medical access to cannabis in the last couple of days has really been weighing a heavy toll on me personally.”

Asked how the failure of IM-27 would impact his own business, Jeffries says the position hasn’t changed. “We’re a patient-owned and oriented business. I named the store after my mom, who is patient-zero in my heart, and the reason I got into the medical cannabis industry,” he said.

However, Jeffries did concede that the failure of IM-27 has catalyzed a change in his business plan — or at least the route his business will take.

“Basically, there are fewer medical patients than there are adult-use customers in the state of South Dakota,” Jeffries said. “With the failure of IM-27, we’re gonna be focused on more of an intimate approach with our dispensaries.”

This more intimate approach, says Jeffries, will manifest in a smaller-scale operation with fewer registers and less expansion of existing facilities, due to the smaller number of customers.

In terms of the size of that customer base, Jeffries cited a national average of about 2.17%-4% of the population of a state. That’s a range of 20,000-45,000 potential patients in South Dakota.

Comparatively, Jeffries says the South Dakota Dept. of Health reports that around 88,000 people (roughly 10%) in South Dakota currently use marijuana. Nationally, he says that percentage is around 18%.

One aspect of the rejected industry Jeffries laments is the loss of the tourist market. His flagship Puffy’s dispensary is in Rapid City, on the edge of the Black Hills and a major tourist market in South Dakota. “Just in our first months of being open here at Puffy’s, we’ve had to turn down 400 out-of-state medical cards, because they have to go through a very bureaucratic process before they come shop with us,” he said.

South Dakota does technically practice reciprocity with other medical marijuana states, however, the process for out-of-state patients can be difficult.

Jeffries explained that the state department is responsible for deciding if a patient with a card from another state has a South Dakota qualifying condition, which means that the patient must register with SDDOH, have their own doctor write them a recommendation for South Dakota’s program and then submit that to the department, who would then mail them a South Dakota medical card.

This process, said Jeffries, can take up to 60 days, making it especially difficult for patients who haven’t had time to plan two months ahead.

“I can’t stand at the front door of my dispensary anymore and turn down a patient from out-of-state,” Jeffries said. “It is so heartbreaking to see somebody who cannot take marijuana across state lines show up at our doorsteps in a wheelchair and crying their eyes out because they need medicine — it’s an unbelievable thing that we need to address immediately.”

Along with a smaller user base for cannabis products due to a market limited to medical sales, South Dakota’s cannabis industry, and the state government itself, will also see lower revenue than if adult use had passed.

“Take the great state of Montana,” Jeffries said. “Montana just passed adult-use cannabis in 2020. They’ve already implemented their program, and in the first fiscal year, raised $34 million in tax revenue, and that’s tax revenue that’s lost out in South Dakota.”

Another thing Jeffries cautions that South Dakota may lose out on is regulatory control.

“It’s only a matter of time before the federal government decides to regulate [marijuana], and we as a state of South Dakota have to figure out, are we going to allow the federal government to regulate cannabis after the fact or do we come in and implement a program, and regulate it ourselves to establish a status quo,” he asked.

And federal change may indeed be coming. On Oct. 6, President Biden directed the federal secretary of health and human services and the U.S. attorney general to begin the process of considering the rescheduling of marijuana under federal law.

Federal law currently classifies marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act — along with such drugs as heroin, and higher than the classification of fentanyl and methamphetamine.

Not all is doom and gloom in the eyes of those in favor of recreational cannabis, however, at least as far as Jeffries is concerned.

“I was raised in a household that always talked about ‘look at the bright side,’” said Jeffries. “I think there is a silver lining in IM-27 not passing in that the super-majority of cannabis establishments in South Dakota are locally owned. This will allow South Dakotans to establish their footprint before adult use passes, either nationally or in 2024 [in South Dakota].”

Another thing favoring local businesses in South Dakota is the caps that some local governments have put on cannabis establishments in their jurisdictions. “That would prevent large out-of-state cannabis companies from seeing an appetizing market — and allows South Dakotans that unique incubation period,” said Jeffries.

This delay however could be a double-edged sword however, with Jeffries warning that it could result in South Dakota being left behind.

As of November 9, 2022, 21 U.S. states (as well as Guam and Washington D.C.) have legalized recreational marijuana. Due to marijuana’s federally illegal status, those states all represent closed economic ecosystems for marijuana, as it is a federal crime to take marijuana across state lines.

If the federal government were to legalize marijuana, however, regulated interstate commerce for the substance would be possible, and those states with full-fledged recreational markets of their own would be primed to immediately take advantage of the brand-new market.

“Had South Dakota been able to jump in front of the program — we could be an export state of adult-use cannabis instead of being an import state,” said Jeffries. “California, Oklahoma, Colorado, Oregon — states that have had programs in place — they will be export states, and they’ll be exporting to states like South Dakota.”

While there are plans to get recreational marijuana back on the South Dakota ballot in 2024, with the federal government taking a serious look at rescheduling, it may already be too late.

I’m the CEO and co-founder of Puffy’s dispensary we’ve got some fun updates and some serious updates for you first off the fun updates currently right now.

Puffy’s has over 20 strains on the shelf for medical marijuana patients we also have a wide variety of other products including gummies, Vape cartridges, tinctures pre-pack American-made chillums, and pre-rolled Joints. Stop on in at any time at 2120 West Main Street Unit 5 in Rapid City to pick up any of those products make sure you have your medical marijuana card state issued South Dakota and your driver’s license and we can help take care of you. Currently right now we’re building out our Sturgis location amongst others in Rapid City in the surrounding areas and they should be ready to go by the beginning of the year so stay tuned follow us on Facebook and Instagram for updates and we’ll be sure to get you some more.

Now for the serious part. We have a serious dogfight on our hands with initiated measure 27. We need your support in voting yes on adult use cannabis we’ve already passed cannabis in South Dakota with Amendment with 54 percent of the majority vote in 2020. As some of you may know it was struck down in the Supreme Court of South Dakota for being unconstitutional for violating single subject rule. It was a flawed decision in my opinion because cannabis is cannabis whether it’s adult use medical or hemp it all comes from the same plant it’s an arbitrary number of THC that separates the difference we are having a huge campaign going on right now in South Dakota you have made seen in some of your local jurisdictions the vote Yes on 27 signs and we need your support whatever you can do whether it’s going down to The Ballot Box early bringing friends and family to go vote putting signs up spreading Awareness on Facebook amongst other social media we need your help in passing I am 27.

Currently right now it is extremely hard for our veterans who have served this country to get a medical marijuana card. The VA is a federally funded program and cannot issue a recommendation for our veterans I am 27 is the fastest path to getting our veterans the help they need our opponents have stated that South Dakota is going to turn into Colorado I can assure you it’s definitely not Colorado implemented and was the first to implement policy regarding adult use cannabis but they had a wide Myriad of other policies that affected how Colorado operates as a community the same way as South Dakota implements policies on how South Dakota operates as a community now in South Dakota regarding cannabis specifically we’ve looked to other states to see how to do things correctly versus how not to do things and we’ve learned those mistakes and we’ve implemented them here in the Cannabis program one of those big takeaways is having dispensaries on every street corner that doesn’t happen in South Dakota there’s a limited number of dispensaries based on which jurisdiction you live in most jurisdictions in South Dakota have capped the number of retail establishments in their local communities which means more regulatory control over who distributes adult use marijuana when that comes time in 19 out of 19 States every single state that has legalized adult use cannabis has grandfathered in their existing medical programs that’s because medical cannabis has to abide by CFR ratings for their child proof packaging in the same way pharmaceutical companies have to do that and that’s very very key the black market does not ID when they go to sell anyone cannabis and license retail establishments we have to check and verify that you’re a valid resident of South Dakota or any state and make sure that you’re over the age of 21. we put those products in child proof packaging and on top of that an opaque containers with labels that clearly indicate what’s in the material because it’s been tested by a verified Testing Lab using ISO certification which is a National Standard in testing the black market doesn’t do that one of the big takeaways I think from this is that proponents and opponents alike have a common goal in protecting South Dakota kids except we want to do it completely differently voting yes on I am 27 puts regulated adult use cannabis in a market that’s contained regulated monitored under security camera lock and key whereas opponents want to continue the status quo of having the black market be the ones that control it where they don’t ID your children I think it’s very very important that even though I am a pro-ponent of I am 27 we want to still protect South Dakota kids in a different way because the war on drugs and this the current status quo has not worked it’s very clear so I would urge you vote Yes on I am 27 change the status quo take what is in the black market and put it into a regulated market so we can help those
who need it thank you.

By Kayla Henderson

Published: Oct. 18, 2022 at 8:00 PM MDT|Updated: 13 hours ago

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) -The debate over the recreational marijuana issue continues. However, according to a federally funded survey, youth marijuana use decreased significantly in 2021, as well as teen consumption of illicit substances overall.

“Colorado’s 171 million dollars was appropriated strictly to education; that’s educating our youth on the effects of marijuana and what that looks like, and that’s resources well-spent. Other tax revenues went to drug addiction, law enforcement, roads and infrastructure amongst building brand new schools and a wide variety of things that can help benefit the South Dakota community,” says proponent Kittrick Jeffries, CEO for Puffy’s Dispensary

Jim Kinyon, chairman for Protecting South Dakota Kids, counters by saying some Colorado resident, have moved to South Dakota because of the negative impact cannabis has had on Colorado.

“We don’t lock up people for marijuana. We try and get them healthy,” said Kinyon, “In the state of South Dakota, if this gets legalized, we’re leaving South Dakota because our kids and our families won’t be safe.”

Meade County Sheriff-elect Pat West says you would be allowed to grow up to three or six marijuana plants in a household but no more than an ounce of product.

“So if they’re allowed to have six marijuana plants in a house, that means you can grow up to 60 pounds of marijuana every three months; that’s an excessive amount of marijuana,” said West.

In 2018, In South Dakota, one out of every 10 arrests were for marijuana offenses. Law enforcement and the court systems were getting “clogged” with marijuana offenses, taking away resources to investigate violent crime

“And so by the passage of IM 27, I believe that we can appropriate those law enforcement officers’ time, effort, and energy going after more hard drugs, more violent crime, and that will benefit the community as a whole and throughout the entire state,” Jeffries claimed.

In a recent SDSU poll, 45 percent of voters are in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana but 47 percent are opposed; with 8 percent undecided.

Original Article

DENVER, Sept. 20, 2022 – PRESS RELEASE – Flowhub, the leading cannabis software company for dispensaries, announced the launch of Maui (Flowhub Maui), a revolutionary new product offering underpinned by over eight years of national industry expertise. Maui is an intuitive, flexible, and performant solution focused on helping cannabis retailers increase profits, operate more efficiently, and create superior customer experiences. Based on benchmark data from live customers, the platform’s brand new backend architecture is more than 20 times faster than Flowhub’s legacy application, allowing dispensaries to accelerate growth and increase transaction volume.

“Many assume the plant sells itself, but it’s not so simple for legal cannabis retailers. The industry remains a highly regulated environment with an influx of challenges and increasing competition. So far technology providers have struggled to keep up with today’s dispensary needs and consumer expectations,” said Kyle Sherman, founder and CEO of Flowhub. “With Maui, Flowhub gives full control back to dispensaries. We’ve taken diligent customer feedback to deliver a cutting-edge, mobile-first operating system primed for this multibillion-dollar industry. We’re here to power the upcoming explosion of innovative retail experiences that sustain healthy cannabis businesses and keep customers returning for more.”

Maui was created with the core belief that cannabis point-of-sale (POS) systems should be dynamic enough to accommodate any kind of customer experience a retailer wants to offer while remaining compliant at all times. Unlike other POS companies in the space, Flowhub Maui is an open, highly configurable system that allows businesses to easily integrate a custom tech stack on their choice of hardware, whether that’s iPads, Macs, or PCs. Dispensaries can set up their stores to match a growing diversity of retail environments and feel confident in the ownership, security, and accuracy of their data. This flexibility is essential for dispensaries to build competitive brands and execute frictionless operations.

Notable benefits of Maui include:

Regulatory Agility: With the no-code app interface, Maui simplifies compliance with the vital ability to adjust regulatory settings to meet ever-changing state-by-state requirements in minutes.
Universal Login: Multistate operators (MSOs) can now access all dispensary locations from one login to manage inventory, settings, reports and data across all locations and state lines—a first-of-its-kind feature in the cannabis point-of-sale space.
Improved Inventory Workflows: Maui reduces overhead associated with track-and-trace inventory management. It has a seamless two-way Metrc integration allowing for easier batch imports and one-click discrepancy resolution. These enhancements have led to more than 40% efficiency gains on average for dispensaries, according to Flowhub data.
Extensible Product Catalog: Maui provides a single source of truth for all inventory items across locations with its unified product catalog. It’s effortless to add new product variants, set out-the-door pricing, and build prices based on location, customer groups and more.
Integrated Payments: Dispensaries on Maui may offer consumers more convenient ways to pay with a selection of compliant cashless payment solutions, including integrated Flowhub Pay and a recently announced ACH solution in partnership with Aeropay. Flowhub data shows that the average dispensary increases revenue by more than 30% on every non-cash transaction.
Automated Deals: Maui comes with the smartest deal maker in cannabis. Dispensaries can easily automate virtually any type of promotion with advanced rules like AND/OR logic for BOGOs and stack or override permissions.
Mobility: Flowhub mobile apps, including, Greetand Stash, are compatible with Maui, as well as the Flowhub exclusive Nug Pro mobile scanners and commonly used modern mobile hardware like iOS devices and Surface tablets, to allow for increased efficiencies and harmonious integration across the platform.

Maui will be available in all active Flowhub markets, including the company’s recently entered markets, New Jersey, West Virginia and South Dakota.

“Flowhub Maui is by far the best cannabis retail platform available,” said Jaclyn Enlow, head of operations for Chesapeake Apothecary in Maryland. “We were up and running so quickly. The team at Flowhub is fantastic, but they haven’t had to support us too much because the product is intuitive and does what we need it to do. It worked with my existing hardware, so it was dead simple to go live. It took days instead of weeks to train and implement even when moving from another platform.”

“Flowhub has been supporting cannabis retailers since the beginning and with Maui it shows. They have used their experience to make the application intuitive and easy to use, and we were blown away by how quickly Flowhub was able to have us ready for compliant cannabis retail in South Dakota,” said Kittrick Jeffries, CEO/co-owner of Puffy’s Dispensary. “We opened our first of 11 dispensaries, and Maui makes it that much easier. Maui eliminates redundancy and streamlines the process to get cannabis to our customers/patients as fast as we can.”

Maui arrives on the heels of Flowhub’s $19 million strategic fundraise in 2021, led by venture firms Headline and Poseidon, and a personal investment from world-renowned rapper, entrepreneur and entertainment mogul Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter. To date, the company has raised nearly $50 million in capital, bringing the company’s valuation to over $200 million.

Flowhub has continued its commitment to building a sustainable, inclusive future through legalization advocacy efforts, partner relationships, and social responsibility. Since launching in June 2021, Flowhub’s Social Equity Program has granted over $4 million in software awards to support underrepresented dispensary entrepreneurs from a diversity of backgrounds, particularly those who have previously been involved in a marijuana conviction. Flowhub also has an open API framework connecting to over 50 integration partners spanning ecommerce, ERP, data analytics, CRM and more across its app ecosystem.

With the launch of Maui and new leadership hires, including Chief Operating Officer Leandre Johns, Vice President of Customer Operations Sheila Lavender, Vice President of Product Matt Tharp, and Vice President of Engineering Kris Cicarelli, the company is well poised to accelerate expansion into emerging markets, further develop its dynamic product line and grow its social equity program, to enable a future where cannabis is accessible to every adult on planet Earth.

Original Article

Medical marijuana ID cardholders in the Black Hills now have a place to buy cannabis.

Puffy’s Dispensary on Thursday will open the first of 11 planned locations in the Rapid City and surrounding areas. The 2120 W. Main St. location marks the first licensed pot dispensary to begin operations west of the Missouri River.

A year since medical cannabis became legal in South Dakota, bureaucratic red tape and supply chain shortages continue to delay the opening of dozens of dispensaries and grow facilities across the state.

But one eastern South Dakota Native American tribe has managed to standup a seed-to-sale cannabis operation that’s already bringing tens of millions to the Moody County reservation.

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe (FSST) in 2015 legalized marijuana with a vision of becoming a leader in the nation’s budding cannabis industry. And after a few hiccups and snags along the way, a vote among all South Dakotans to legalize medical cannabis in their state emboldened the tribe to become the leading — and still the only — marijuana distributor in the Mount Rushmore State.

“It’s well over $10 million by now with the buildings and everything we’ve bought,” FSST tribal spokesman Seth Pearman said of how much the tribe has invested in developing it’s own Native Nation Cannabis, LLC.

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The tribe’s cannabis operations consists of a dispensary, multiple mass-grow facilities, a product manufacturing plant, a chemistry lab and a full-scale bakery all housed on the edge of reservation land about 45 miles north of Sioux Falls.

1 year ago:Flandreau tribe’s cannabis outfit has 10,000 plants, expected to generate $1M a month

And since the very first cannabis sales on July 1, 2021, the growers, testers, trimmers, joint rollers and cashiers who all work for Native Nations Cannabis haven’t seen any slow down.

Native Nations Cannabis COO Jonathan Hunt told the Argus Leader during a tour of the tribe’s cannabis campus this week the company has found it difficult to keep up with the demand of the more than 11,000 medical marijuana patients in the tribe’s medical program.

A grow facility with a constant cycle of 10,000 cannabis plants, which get used for everything from traditional flower buds to oils and edibles, hasn’t been enough to keep up with the 350 to 500 customers who walk through their doors each day, he said, adding the 100,000-plus transactions they’ve had average between $130 and $180 each.

That’s forced the company to put purchase limits in place. For instance, each customer is entitled to purchase up to only 1/8th of an ounce of flowered marijuana each day.

And even with two more grow facilities currently under construction and scheduled to come online in the coming months, demand is still expected to exceed supply, said David Kills-A-Hundred, a Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe member and marketing director for the cannabis company.

But one eastern South Dakota Native American tribe has managed to standup a seed-to-sale cannabis operation that’s already bringing tens of millions to the Moody County reservation.

More:Amendment C is unrelated to marijuana. Here’s why legal cannabis proponents are attacking it.

A series of cannabis plants, of the Durban Poison strain, grow at Native Nations Cannabis on Monday, June 27, 2022, in Flandreau. This particular strain is called a landrace strain, meaning it hasn't been modified from how the plant was originally found in its native habitat.

1 year ago:Flandreau tribe’s cannabis outfit has 10,000 plants, expected to generate $1M a month

And since the very first cannabis sales on July 1, 2021, the growers, testers, trimmers, joint rollers and cashiers who all work for Native Nations Cannabis haven’t seen any slow down.

That’s forced the company to put purchase limits in place. For instance, each customer is entitled to purchase up to only 1/8th of an ounce of flowered marijuana each day.

Everett Keble, U.S. Army veteran, selects cannabis products to purchase at the Native Nations Cannabis dispensary on Monday, June 27, 2022, in Flandreau.

“We’ll re-evaluate, but I’m of the opinion that it will never be enough,” he said.

More:South Dakota marijuana legalization heads back to ballot in November 2022 election

What’s not guaranteed?

That’s partly because Native Nations Cannabis, operating independently of the state of South Dakota’s medical program, is still the only company in the entire state engaging in personal-use marijuana sales.

While some cultivation facilities licensed by the Department of Health are coming online and beginning to grow crops, a more burdensome regulatory climate for non-tribal cannabis operations has slowed their entry into the marijuana market.

The future home of a 605 Cannabis dispensary stands on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in Worthing, SD.

And while the law took effect July 1, 2021, rules and regulations that came with it have more than 100 marijuana businesses licensed by the Department of Health still working toward harvesting, processing and, eventually, selling cannabis products.

“We’re trying to open as early as August, but that’s not a guarantee,” said Kittrick Jeffries, owner of a Rapid City-based cannabis firm called Puffy’s licensed to operate 10 dispensaries across the Black Hills.

Driving the delays are both bureaucratic red tape at the local and state level as well as supply chain shortages that have disrupted the world economy since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.

Jeffries and other cannabis-related licenses holders across the state point to the statutory and regulatory timelines passed both within 2020’s Initiated Measure 26 and rules created by the DOH and approved by state legislators.

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What is the red tape for the rest of the state?

To begin with, the Department of Health had until November 2021 to begin accepting applications for licenses from aspiring cannabis cultivators, operators and growers, and then 90 days to either certify or reject an application.

And with a requirement that all products sold in South Dakota dispensaries be supplied with cannabis grown here by a state-licensed cultivator, and a 130-day cycle from seed to sales, Jeffries said the most optimistic timelines always had the first dispensaries opening no sooner than summer 2022.

Brandon Trauger, extraction manager, checks on the VTA distillation plant in the chemical lab at Native Nations Cannabis on Monday, June 27, 2022, in Flandreau. The distiller extracts THC.

Cultivators and manufacturers, who will supply products to dispensaries, are also finding many of the mechanical components needed to operate are backlogged, with projected delivery of items like electrical energy transformers and heating and cooling units as far out as 10 months.

“It’s even things like receipt printers that are tough right now,” Jeffries said.

But with nearly 1,200 state cards issued, and 25 DOH-certified cultivation facilities working to begin supplying South Dakota’s 70 licensed dispensaries, it’s only a matter of time.

More:South Dakota could see its first hemp processing plant by fall 2022

“I’d say give it until April next year,” he said. “Once everybody comes online, there will be a steady flow.”

The Department of Health did not accommodate an interview request for this article.

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What’s not guaranteed?

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) — Kittrick Jeffries got into the cannabis industry around 7-years ago after his mom was diagnosed with cancer. Now, he’s in the process of bringing his first dispensary to Rapid City.

“I was born and raised here in Rapid City. I graduated from Stevens and went to Black Hills State University,” Jeffries told KELOLAND News. “My mom was diagnosed with cancer, and that’s really what sparked my interest in the cannabis industry in general.”

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – At the Black Hills Forum and Press Club today, a marijuana legalization advocate and dispensary owner made the case for how the Black Hills community can adapt to changes in cannabis policy.

He says there has been a shift politically in South Dakota over recent years, making these new policies possible.

Since voters passed Amendment A and Initiated Measure 26 in November of 2020, lawmakers and citizens alike have had questions about the implications of legal cannabis.

Kittrick Jeffries, owner of Dakota Cannabis Consulting and Puffy’s Dispensary, was there with answers.

BELLE FOURCHE — The Butte County Commission signed off on two more certificates of compliance for a pair of medical cannabis establishments: one for a cultivation license and one for a manufacturing license.

During the March 15 meeting of the county commission, 1889 Farms LLC and The High Hills LLC applied for cultivation and manufacturing licenses, respectively.

Representing the businesses, Kittrick Jeffries, a former marijuana industry compliance officer and founder of Dakota Cannabis Consulting, a Rapid City-based cannabis consulting firm, addressed the commission about the two applications.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – We know now the names and locations of the 15 future medical marijuana dispensaries in Rapid City.

The South Dakota Medical Cannabis Program in Pierre conducted a lottery drawing Wednesday to determine which of the 47 applicants will receive the 15 licenses that the Rapid City Council gave the green light for last year.

The successful applicants now have a year to establish their dispensaries.