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Who will win the lottery to run Rhode Island's six new medical marijuana dispensaries? Tom Mooney, The Providence Journal © The Providence Journal file / Kris Craig A customer walks through Greenleaf Compassion Center in Portsmouth. PROVIDENCE — David Spradin is the CEO of a California-based marijuana company called Perfect Union. It has 14 marijuana stores between Los Angeles and Sacramento and six stores in New Mexico, and the company has had stores in Oregon and Washington, says Rick McAuliffe, a Rhode Island lobbyist who now also serves as a director for Spradin’...

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 ha...

Who will win the lottery to run Rhode Island's six new medical marijuana dispensaries? Tom Mooney, The Providence Journal © The Providence Journal file / Kris Craig A customer walks through Greenleaf Compassion Center in Portsmouth. PROVIDENCE — David Spradin is the CEO of a California-based marijuana company called Perfect Union. It has 14 marijuana stores between Los Angeles and Sacramento and six stores in New Mexico, and the company has had stores in Oregon and Washington, says Rick McAuliffe, a Rhode Island lobbyist who now also serves as a director for Spradin’...

PHOTO BlackInk CC GoLocal has a complete breakdown of who has applied for the new and expanded list of medical marijuana licenses -- so-called compassion centers -- and the applicants include some of the top insiders in Rhode Island and even one sitting mayor. All applications needed to be filed last week with the State of Rhode Island. The applicants' directors are almost exclusively male, white and an overwhelming number of high-level political players -- lobbyists, past and present elected officials and some big campaign donors. For each of the applicants, the cost is $10,000 and if select...

The Untouchables (1987) TV stations have been doing sterling work in keeping the memory of Sean Connery alive since he died during the summer, and this weekend sees another double bill courtesy of BBC Two. Sidney Lumet’s intense Second World War drama The Hill (1965) is generally considered among Connery’s finest films, made at the peak of his Bond stardom and offering an altogether starker and more severe entertainment. Before that, however, the Beeb is dusting off The Untouchables, the irresistible period crime movie from the star’s latter-day renaissance that saw him pick...