A total of 19 applicants are competing to win three additional licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries in Connecticut, state regulators announced.
The Department of Consumer Protection did not identify the 19 applicants, which will undergo a confidential review process.
The department has identified Fairfield and New Haven counties as preferred locations for the additional licenses, due to the growing number of registered medical marijuana patients that live in those areas.
DCP hopes to award the three licenses by early next year. They would add to the state’s initial group of six dispensaries, which began selling product last year. A total of 27 applicants competed for those six licenses.
As of Aug. 27, 50 percent of the 5,357 registered patients resided in New Haven and Fairfield counties, according to DCP.
