On January 27, 2022, the Ohio Lottery Commission will hold a drawing to determine the winning applications for 73 additional medical marijuana dispensaries in Ohio. Last year (2021), the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program, along with the State Pharmacy Board of Ohio, determined that the…
When new COVID 19 case infection rates dipped during the Spring of 2021, the State Medical Board of Ohio sought to end its deferred enforcement Ohio’s Telemedicine Rules and signaled that the grace period window would close on September 17, 2021. However, with the recent…
ABCnews.com reported on December 12, 2019, that Major League Baseball removed marijuana from its list of abuse, joining the National Hockey League as the only professional sports league to do so. The change will be made when spring training begins in 2020. According to Major…
The State Medical Board of Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Expert Review Committee met on August 14, 2019. Quorum was not present to vote on a recommendation to the full Medical Board. Rather than deferring a vote, Medical Board President Michael Schottenstein enlarged the size of the…
The State Medical Board of Ohio has a statutory duty to consider requests to add a disease or condition as a qualifying medical condition for the purposes of recommending medical cannabis. The Medical Board promulgated rules in September 2017 which listed the process that it…
When the Legislature drafted the Medical Marijuana Control Act, it decided that fifteen percent of all cultivator, processor, and dispensary licenses must go to applicants that are owned and operated by Ohio residents who were part of economically disadvantaged groups (EDG). The statute defined EDGs…
The Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee met on September 13, 2018. The Committee was not provided with any information as to when the program will become fully operational, let alone partially operational. Mark Hamlin of the Ohio Department of Commerce addressed the Committee first. Twenty-six companies…
On Friday, August 3, 2018, the Ohio Department of Commerce announced seven companies that received provisional medical marijuana processor license: Ohio Grown Therapies, LLC (Johnstown, Licking County); Fire Rock Processing Ltd. (Columbus, Franklin County); Ohio Green Grow LLC (Toledo, Lucas County); Greenleaf Therapeutics, LLC (Middlefield,…
The laws enacted by the Legislature deal with more than just allowing patients with certain conditions to use medical cannabis. Certain rights were given to these patients, as well as certain restrictions. These include: An Employer is not required to permit or accommodate an employee’s…
There has been great improvement in the Medical Marijuana Control Program since June 1, 2018, but it will not be fully operational on time. The list of physicians with the ability to recommend medical cannabis continues to grow. The State Medical Board of Ohio expects…
