For the first time, a company has been given the go-ahead to start growing marijuana in Ohio. The group just received an official cultivator license from the state. Now more than a dozen other companies are lined up for inspections, though, the state鈥檚 medical marijuana program is still behind schedule.
WellSpring Fields in Portage County will start growing marijuana for medical purposes after receiving the state鈥檚 first cultivator license.
The state has a whole slate of inspections scheduled, including seven more in July.
According to the , it will also issue two provisional licenses for testing laboratories; for and .
Medicinal marijuana will officially be legal to distribute, sell, and purchase on September 8.
However, due to a delay in issuing licenses, by then.
