Cannabis License Applications & Build Out Support

'68 Partners' extensive experience in the cannabis regulatory and licensing trenches gives your business the edge it needs to make it to the licensing playoffs. Our team has helped countless individuals and businesses across the globe obtain licenses. But state typically award only a handful of licenses in the first round and licensing windows often close quickly, not to reopen again for months, if not years. Pls, regulations and legislation are constantly shifting and twisting like the winds.

At '68 partners, we stay current on the laws, regulations and trends so that you are best positioned and prepared to seize licensing opportunities.

The cannabis market is increasingly more competitive and regulated, and is particularly expensive to get in.  License application preparation requires significant investments of energy, effort, and funds— with no guarantee of success, even for applicants with experience in cultivation, retail dispensaries, distribution, and other operations. We understand how daunting and overwhelming this process seems, especially for first time applicants. You are not alone. Like many clients '68 partners team has served, you need a trained guide to provide a clear roadmap to success, preliminary gap assessment to final submission.

To complicate matters, many lawyers and self-proclaimed “cannabis experts” pounced on this licensing market opportunity, too, with claims of experience and specialized knowledge they do not have, often leaving applicants and operators holding the empty bag. '68 partners always encourages applicants and licensees to carefully vet all professional service providers to ensure they have the requisite skills and experience to get the job done right—the first time, for a reasonable, not gouging, fee.

Take your best shot by partnering with the trusted professionals at '68 partners who have decades of real-world experience navigating complex laws and regulations, and who have been in the cannabis regulatory and licensing trenches nationwide for nearly a decade.

The cannabis industry is eclectic and includes many different license opportunities. Are you a cultivator, processor, manufacturer, distributor, delivery agent, laboratory, retailer, or some or all of these? Determining which license type is best suited for your team is a critical first step. '68 partners will help align your skills and means with your dream so that you pursue the regulatory path that is best suited for your team, increasing your chances of success.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” The next critical step is to assemble your team of partners and subject matter experts. But first, having adequate capital or outside funding from investors is crucial so that you are able to procure the proper consultation services, a location, and other required resources along your journey. Avoid the common mistake of getting knee-deep in your business vision—or worse, retaining a lawyer who exhausts your budget before you have a chance to get off the ground. Once you have secured adequate funding, put trusted players on your team who have the necessary skills and industry chops to execute the business game-plan. You want to hire or engage team members and consultants who have relevant industry experience and specialized skills so that you can highlight your team’s collective expertise in the application.

Prior to obtaining a license, or in many cases even before submitting your application, you will need to secure property that is correctly zoned and able to support the needs of a cannabis business. Perhaps second to securing funds from trusted sources, securing property can be the most challenging part of the process. Our strategic partners have worked with countless municipalities to assist clients in obtaining compliant properties in correctly zoned areas.

This is not DIY or a weekend project. Drafting an application – whether narrative-intensive and merit-based, or document-focused and lottery-destined – has many moving parts and literally hundreds of regulatory requirements. Narratives, security plans, SOPs, business and operating plans, and more, need to be customized for your unique business and brand, and must be compliant with all applicable local, municipal, state, and federal rules and regulations. Ensuring regulatory compliance is foundational to the application process. '68 partners has years of experience drafting compelling and compliant narratives, plans, and SOPs for clients in multiple competitive states.

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So, you may have submitted your license application and are awaiting your approvals. Or, you have actually won a cannabis business license! Now what? If you have been fortunate enough to be awarded a cannabis business license or are awaiting your final licensure, you now face new time-sensitive challenges from buildout to SOP preparation, to meeting endless regulatory compliance requirements. You have worked tirelessly to win your license, so it is critical to ensure you do everything it takes to timely open and keep your license in good standing.

From the time you are awarded your cannabis business provisional license, you will undergo significant hurdles en route to the grand opening. Every day that your business is not open, could cost your business tens of thousands of dollars in sales. '68 partners partners with you to help avoid the regulatory black ice™, manage the unexpected and unknowns that accompany construction, local approvals, field investigations, audits, equipment ordering, and compliance inspections, and more.

'68partners.com is your trusted guide to starting your business, protecting and growing it, and even exiting it. Our global consulting firm has supported clients in numerous regulated markets as they build, scale, and sell their businesses. And our experience allows us to do this efficiently and cost-effectively.

We are here to facilitate your business buildout and growth-- from start to exit.