AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB)- By January, medical marijuana will be dispensed in a corporate park in the Town of Amherst.

Among the five companies chosen by the NY State Health Department to manufacture medical marijuana is Pharmacann out of Chicago, which plans to put one of its dispensaries at 25 Northpointe Parkway, near North French Road.

A Pharmacann spokeswoman tells News 4 the company secured the Amherst location months ago in the hopes they would be chosen to put a dispensary there.

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Medical Marijuana licenses were announced by the Department of Health Friday.

After a cutthroat competition, the five companies that will receive licenses to grow and distribute medical marijuana in New York were announced today by the state Department of Health.

Licenses have been awarded to Bloomfield Industries, Columbia Care NY, Empire State Health Solutions, Etain and PharmaCann.

The leaders of the five winners come from a range of backgrounds:

The NY State Department of Health announced the five companies that were given medical marijuana licenses. One of the companies will be manufacturing in Queens, with a dispensary in Manhattan, while three other companies will have dispensaries in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.

Here are the companies, with the counties they are doing business in:

Bloomfield Industries Inc.
Manufacturing: Queens
Dispensing: Nassau
Dispensing: New York
Dispensing: Onondaga
Dispensing: Erie

Columbia Care NY LLC
Manufacturing: Monroe
Dispensing: New York
Dispensing: Suffolk
Dispensing: Clinton
Dispensing: Monroe

(WBNG Binghamton) A medical marijuana dispensary will be opening in Broome County, the New York State Department of Health announced Friday.

The dispensary will be located in Johnson City at 589 Harry L Drive. That plaza currently houses Papa John's and Apple Travel.

According to the department of health, out of 43 applicants, five organizations were chosen to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana under New York State's Medical Marijuana Program.

Empire State Health Solutions is the organization that will be operating in Broome. The company will also have dispensaries in Albany, Westchester and Queens counties. Its manufacturing facility will be located in Fulton County.

The Mount Sinai Health System will work with Columbia Care LLC, a provider of medical marijuana, on research projects

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 31, 2015

The Mount Sinai Health System will work with Columbia Care LLC, a provider of medical marijuana, on research projects that evaluate the potential of related, experimental treatments. The collaboration moves into the next phase with the recent decision by the New York State Department of Health to award Columbia Care one of five state licenses to produce and dispense medical marijuana.

Minnesota Medical Solutions, one of two Minnesota medical marijuana producers, is expanding to the state of New York.

The company started sales earlier this month in Minnesota, and was one of five successful bidders to provide similar products in New York.

The New York branch, Empire State Health Solutions, will be run by the same Minnesota physician, Dr. Kyle Kingsley.

Kingsley said Empire State Health Solutions will be developing a growing and manufacturing operation in Perth, in central New York state.

A Syracuse-based company is looking to turn the vacant Giant Food Mart building in Johnson City into a cultivation center for medical marijuana.(Photo: Getty Images)

A planned facility to manufacture marijuana in Broome County went up in smoke Friday as the New York Department of Health passed over a Syracuse-based company’s bid to grow a medicinal form of the drug in Johnson City.

Salus Scientific lost out on one of the five winning slots for the lucrative rights to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana in New York, and with it the 200 local jobs the company estimated they would have brought to the area.

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 state of New York has given the green light to legally grow marijuana — in Queens.

The Cuomo administration announced Friday that it has selected five firms to manufacture and dispense marijuana to chronically ill patients at 20 locations across the state.

The marijuana will be grown at five indoor facilities.

Bloomfield Industries will operate a “grow house” in Queens, the state Health Department said in a statement.

The other four pot plant manufacturing plants will be located north of the city — in Orange, Monroe, Warren and Fulton counties.

But not all patients with prescriptions for marijuana will have an easy time getting their cannabis at 20 designated locations.