Four medical marijuana dispensaries have been awarded licenses from the state of Ohio, bringing the total number of approved locations to five. With the first harvest being tested, the business are close to opening their doors.
The Ohio Pharmacy Board has awarded certificates of operation to planned medical marijuana dispensaries in Canton, Wickliffe, Sandusky and Wintersville. That Wintersville dispensary is the second for that eastern Ohio town to be awarded a certificate of operation.
All five could also be up and running in days.
State officials say the supply of medical marijuana will be limited at first but will expand as processing plants are licensed to produce oils, creams and other forms of the plant. Just one testing lab, in Streetsboro, has won approval so far.
No dispensaries have yet to be approved in Central Ohio.
