UXBRIDGE – Cannabis is becoming king in this town on the Rhode Island border. The Exbridge community of roughly 14,000 has embraced legal marijuana businesses of all available types – and even some not yet OK’ed by state regulators, such as a drive-in pot shop — as an economic boost.

A number of measures that would further open the town to marijuana business are being considered.

Selectmen have approved host community agreements with 11 businesses so far.

At a recent Board of Selectmen’s meeting, selectmen opted to prepare for the possibility of regulated cannabis cafés, marijuana businesses that would allow on-site or social consumption.

“I don’t think it’s going to go away. If anything it’s going to expand,” said Selectman Jeffrey Shaw.

He said the town has “done well with our move in this” and supported the consensus of the board to bring an article to town meeting, possibly at a special town meeting this fall, to gauge voters’ interest in allowing marijuana cafés.

The move came before the state Cannabis Control Commission was scheduled to vote on draft regulations that would, among other things, allow a pilot program of marijuana cafés in up to 12 communities.

Licenses for these so-called primary-use locations, or cafés, would be exclusively available to licensed microbusinesses, craft marijuana cooperatives, certified economic empowerment priority applicants and social equity program participants for the first two years, under the draft regulation.

Fitchburg, Spencer, Southbridge and parts of Worcester are economic empowerment areas, according to the commission.

Uxbridge is not among the economic empowerment areas.

But Gibby’s Garden, 660 Douglas St. Suite 300, is a licensed, woman-owned marijuana microbusiness that could fit under the proposed pilot criteria.

Blackstone Valley Naturals, 660 Douglas St., Unit 400, has received a provisional marijuana microbusiness license from the commission.

Deep Roots Inc., 420 West St., has filed a microbusiness license application with the commission.

The Legislature would also have to pass a law amending the adult-use marijuana statute to allow consumption of marijuana on the premises where sold, if the municipality allows it. Two such bills are pending on Beacon Hill, S. 1125 and H. 3541.

Uxbridge has already published the warrant for the fall annual town meeting Oct. 22, so a marijuana café article would likely be brought up in a special town meeting held concurrently with the regular town meeting.

Two articles on the fall annual town meeting warrant would also allow more marijuana business in town.

Article 11 would amend the zoning bylaws to increase the allowable number or retail pot shops to six from the current limit of three.

Article 12 would amend the bylaws to eliminate the current limit of 12 marijuana cultivators, testing facilities, research facilities, product manufacturers or any other type of licensed marijuana-related business except for marijuana retailers or treatment centers.

“In conversation with developers and operators in the business, there is a large demand for supplying marijuana and marijuana products in Massachusetts, and it appears that the market is not close to saturation,” reads the commentary in the warrant. “Developers and operators in Uxbridge have found this to be a good community to develop and operate in.”