CINCINNATI -- In less than a year, some of Ohio’s sickest residents should legally have a new drug to consider: medical marijuana.
The state's newly created Medical Marijuana Control Program is under a Sept. 8, 2018, deadline to fully roll out the new law. Already, hundreds of new rules have been crafted to regulate the budding industry.
But hundreds more decisions are still pending.
STATE BY STATE: Ohio Cannabis News
“The state has a really tight timeline. There’s no room for error,” said James Gould, chairman of Green Light Acquisitions, a Cincinnati-based holding firm for medical marijuana-related ventures.
But with less than year to go, Ohio still has lots of work ahead.
Among the biggest items still to be decided: Who will be able to grow, process, test and sell medical marijuana across Ohio.
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