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Bill sponsor calls for more transparency in marijuana licensing

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 07/28/2015 - 14:00

ALBANY—The state health department is scheduled to award licenses to grow and dispense medical marijuana by the end of the week, but one of the bill's sponsors believes the process should be more transparent.

So far, the public knows the names of the 43 businesses that have submitted applications to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana in the state, but little else.

“I think the documents ought to be public so people can see who is applying and whether they are people with connections, et cetera,” said Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, the chair of the Assembly health committee and the bill's sponsor. ”But what concerns me most about the process is whoever gets picked, or whoever doesn't get picked, will not know why they didn't win, and to me that is an open invitation to all sorts of allegations.”

While some companies have publicly disclosed where they would locate their facilities,...

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