New York State Awards 5 Medical Marijuana Licenses

ALBANY — Mirroring a national trend toward an acceptance of marijuana, the New York State Department of Health announced the names of five organizations on Friday that will be allowed to sell the drug for medical use in the state.

The organizations will be registered with the state, and each will be allowed to open up to four so-called dispensaries statewide. They are required to be doing business within six months, meaning medical marijuana could be on sale in New York before the end of the year.

The marijuana outlets were authorized by the Compassionate Care Act that was signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in July 2014, and the registrations were issued after a three-month review of prospective purveyors of the drug, and amid criticism that the state’s regulations for such businesses are too restrictive.

The companies are Bloomfield Industries Inc., which plans to grow marijuana in Queens and dispense it in Manhattan,...

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