Play for Medical Marijuana License Personal for Wayne County CEO

A Wayne County company is among 46 aiming at opening production and distribution facilities across the region. Bill Carey says the people behind the plans say they could change the face of medicine.

No exact date and times have been set, but a series of decisions by state health officials are expected by months' end on where companies will be allowed to set up to grow, develop and sell medical marijuana. 

Various groups have been pressing for the development of the drug. This year, the support finally crystallized behind a plan.

"The medical marijuana law, as enacted in New York state, and signed by Governor Cuomo, is highly restrictive compared to laws in other parts of our nation," said Mark Doherty, CEO of Butler Evergreen.  

Doherty heads a company out of Wayne County that is hoping to win one of five licenses to develop products. They would be allowed five...

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