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Cannabis dispensary management company

Dispensary management by operators. Not consultants.

For more than eight years we have opened and run successful dispensaries in multiple markets. Joint Venture Advisors brings that operating team and playbook to your license, so you get open, stay compliant and run a profitable store, while you keep ownership and control.

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8+ years operating dispensaries Stores open in multiple markets Flat fees, licensee keeps control

The problem

Licenses are being issued faster than stores can open.

Winning the license is the start. Then comes a site that clears the buffer rules, a lease, local approval, the buildout, security, seed-to-sale, hiring and inspection. Every month a licensed store sits closed costs rent, interest and momentum, and most licensees are doing it for the first time.

The gap between licensed and open is where we do our best work.

Licensed but not open? Start here

New York Statewide, July 2026

Retail licenses issued
890
Dispensaries open
683
531 retail and 359 conditional (CAURD) licenses. The open count also includes microbusinesses and other license types that sell to the public, so the gap among retail licensees is wider than this chart shows.

Maryland social equity July 2026

Licenses awarded
83
Dispensaries open
17
About 4 in 5 awarded social equity dispensaries were not yet open.

Sources: New York Cannabis Control Board, July 3, 2026; Maryland Matters, July 14, 2026.

How we help

One team from first filing to exit

Most clients come to us at one stage and stay for the next. Start where you are.

  1. 1

    Start

    Pick the market, set up ownership the regulator will accept, and build a plan that holds up.

  2. 2

    Win

    Prepare a complete application, lock a compliant site and earn local approval.

  3. 3

    Open

    Build out, install security and seed-to-sale, hire, train and pass inspection.

  4. 4

    Operate

    Run the store, stay audit-ready and protect margin every month.

  5. 5

    Grow or exit

    Diligence, sales, acquisitions and the next state.

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Why operators make better advisors

A management company run by people who run dispensaries

Most cannabis consultants learned the business from the application side. We learned it over eight years of running our own stores: signing leases, sitting through town hearings, passing inspections, managing buyers and budtenders, and making payroll every two weeks. When we tell you what a step costs or how long it takes, it is because we have paid it and waited it out.

When we manage your store, the same people and systems that run ours run yours.

  • Drive-thru retail in MassachusettsWe led the local zoning and state approval work that brought drive-thru cannabis retail to Massachusetts.
  • A licensed cultivation facilityWe founded and built one, so we understand the supply side your buyers deal with every week.
  • New York City retailSite searches, proximity protection and lease negotiation in one of the hardest retail markets in the country.
Years operating dispensaries
8+
Successful stores in multiple markets
Licenses won
8
4 in New York and 4 in Massachusetts, with 4 more pending in New York
Stores open today
3
Across New York and Massachusetts
More in buildout
2
Opening in New York

Where we work

Nine states, covered in depth

Home markets in New York and Massachusetts, and active work across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Every state guide is dated and sourced, because the rules keep changing.

Working in another state? Ask us. We will tell you plainly if we are the right fit.

How we work

Your license, your decisions, our experience

  • You keep control

    You own the license and make the decisions. We work under a flat-fee agreement, structured to hold up under true party of interest and control rules.

    • Flat, fixed fees
    • No share of your revenue or profit unless a regulator approves it
    • No supplier payments, and we never sell our own products to your store

  • Compliance first

    Every plan starts with what the regulator and the town require. We write the SOPs, run mock inspections and audit monthly, so an inspection is never the first test.

    • Mock inspections before opening
    • Unannounced monthly audits
    • Rule changes tracked in every state we serve

  • Experience that pays for itself

    A wrong site, a lease with no approval protection or a failed inspection can cost more than a year of good advice. Eight years of running stores taught us where the expensive mistakes are.

    • Opening checklists built from our own stores
    • Monthly KPI reports with targets and red flags
    • A fix, an owner and a date for every issue
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Tell us where you are. We will tell you what comes next.

Whether you are applying, licensed but not open, or already operating, a 30-minute call will give you a clear next step for your license.

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