Ohio to announce sites for marijuana dispensaries Posted on June 4, 2018 0 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio officials are ready to announce where the state’s 56 medical marijuana dispensaries will be located. The Board of Pharmacy is expected on Monday to name who will get the licenses in 28 geographic districts. The board has been getting background checks and verifying that proposed locations are at least 500 feet from schools and churches. Overall, there were 376 applications for the medical marijuana dispensaries. The sites that are selected will be allowed to sell medical marijuana to qualified and registered patients who have received recommendations from a state-approved list of doctors. The Dayton Daily News reports that two districts in western Ohio won’t get dispensaries yet because there were no applicants or no qualified applicants. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Ohio’s medical marijuana program will bring in about $11 million in fees even before the system is up and running. That figure includes about $5.2 million in non-refundable application fees already collected from more than 650 prospective medical marijuana businesses. The state will also collect about $2.6 million in licensing fees from 25 large and small cultivators who received provisional growing license, and another $2.6 million in annual license renewal fees from growers. Ohioans with one of 21 medical conditions can legally buy and use medical marijuana if it’s recommended to them by a physician.
