Facilities that grow marijuana and create cannabis products will receive priority when the state doles out certificates of operation ahead of recreational sale in Ohio.
A total of 14 dispensaries, five cultivators and six processors in this region have received provisional dual-use licensing as of this week. A few final steps remain before any facility or business can begin working with recreational cannabis, according to the state.
“The different entities in the non-medical sales space have different requirements to obtain their certificate of operation and some may take a bit longer to process due to those requirements,” said Jamie Crawford, a spokesperson of the Ohio Division of Cannabis Control. “That said, to help ensure an efficient supply chain, applications from cultivators, processors, and testing laboratories will receive priority.”