Given the complexity and variation of state regulations for direct cannabis businesses such as dispensaries and grow operations, ancillary businesses like clinics may be the more natural outlet for franchises in the near term, said Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association.

“That kind of operation is much more feasible in what we would call the ancillary part of the industry, the people who aren’t directly handling the plant,” West said. “Those folks don’t have the same regulatory hurdles. They don’t have to have all the same licenses or approvals from the state.”

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