With the dust settling and fuzzy math shrieks abating, Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program’s (program) first phase has drawn to a close. Or has it?
Denying 408 applications and demanding its 12 grower/processor and 27 dispensary licensees construct statutorily compliant facilities within 182 days, the program’s overseeing agency, Pennsylvania’s Department of Health (DOH), faces Herculean obstacles in overcoming the missteps which crippled New York, Maryland and New Jersey’s programs and mollifying scores of disgruntled and litigious applicants.
