Ohio’s colleges and universities can soon apply to test medical marijuana.
State regulators released the documents that schools can use to become a testing laboratory for the new industry. The Ohio Department of Commerce, which will regulate marijuana growing and testing, will accept applications from Sept. 11 to Sept. 22.
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Private companies are not yet eligible to test marijuana. Ohio’s law gives higher education dibs on testing for the first year after the state starts accepting applications, meaning non-university researchers such as Columbus-based Battelle Memorial Institute have to wait until June 5, 2018, to be granted testing licenses.
The department accepted the first applications to become one of 24 medical marijuana growers a year earlier.
