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Massachusetts: Judge orders marijuana licenses restored

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 04/29/2015 - 08:58

A judge has ordered state regulators to allow a company previously headed by former congressman William Delahunt to move forward with plans to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Mashpee and Plymouth, ruling it was improperly denied licenses last year.

In a 22-page ruling Monday, a Suffolk Superior Court judge found that the Department of Public Health failed to follow its own regulations in June when it rejected a bid by Medical Marijuana of Massachusetts to open three dispensaries, after initially approving it.

The denial came five months after the company scored the highest among 100 applicants and was among 20 selected to move onto the inspection phase. It also paid a $50,000 registration fee for each of its three proposed dispensaries.

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Mitchell H. Kaplan concluded that the state launched an additional review of applications following a barrage of criticism about the controversial selection process, then ruled...

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