More than 800 appeals have been filed by companies that were denied state permits to grow, sell or distribute medical cannabis in Missouri.
As part of the process to launch Missouri’s new medical cannabis program, the state received 2,266 cannabis business applications filed by at least 700 different groups. It awarded 60 licenses to grow cannabis, 86 to make cannabis-infused products and 192 to open dispensaries.
The state’s Administrative Hearing Commission had received 845 appeals of those denials by Friday, spokeswoman Vicki Hale said.
“Applications that were largely identical received substantially different scores,” attorneys for NGWMO LLC said in a Jan. 23 filing with the hearing commission. That company is appealing the denial of two cultivation applications.
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