Medical Marijuana Advocates Say Ohio Is Proposing Too Few sites

The panel charged with putting the state’s new medical marijuana law in effect has come up with some rules for sites where marijuana would be grown in Ohio.

The number of proposed growing sites has upset activists who’ve had questions about the new law.  

Limited growing sites and other rules

The Ohio Department of Commerce’s proposals would limit the number of marijuana growing sites to 18. The licenses and fees for the 12 larger sites would be $200,000 each; those for the six smaller sites would be $20,000 each.

'Apparently they want to shut out the Ma and Pa shops.'

The marijuana legalization plan that voters rejected in 2015 would have authorized 10 growing sites. Critics of that plan called it a monopoly and a separate ballot issue prevents similar proposals in the future.

Aaron Marshall is a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, a group that had...

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