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Judge tosses Ohio medical marijuana license requirements for minority groups

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new Ohio medical marijuana grow facility could soon sprout in Northeast Ohio, after a Franklin County judge threw out a state law requiring that at least 15 percent of cultivation licenses go to businesses owned or controlled by African Americans, Asians, American Indians, Hispanics or Latinos.

The Ohio Department of Commerce, the state agency that awards cultivation licenses, will have to decide whether to comply with Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Charles A. Schneider’s Thursday decision and award provisional cultivation licenses to white-owned businesses that scored higher in the review process -- including Greenleaf Gardens, LLC, which challenged the constitutionality of the law in court. Greenleaf Gardens had planned for a large-scale medical marijuana grow operation in Geauga County.

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2018/11/judge-tosses-ohio-medical-marijuana-license-requirements-for-minority-groups.html

 

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