COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Companies awarded licenses to grow medical marijuana in Ohio are banding together and hiring a Columbus law firm to push back on critics of the licensing process and ensure the state's new program is successful.
The companies have formed the Ohio Medical Marijuana License Holder Coalition, a trade association that will represent the interests of companies awarded licenses by the state to cultivate, process and dispense medical marijuana on legislative, compliance and enforcement issues.
The Ohio Department of Commerce awarded 24 provisional cultivator licenses in November. Since then, the license application scoring process has come under fire from elected officials and losing applicants for scoring errors and possible conflicts of interest between application reviewers and license winners.
