Ohio officials have approved the state’s first adult-use marijuana business licenses, teeing up the launch of recreational sales.
About a month after the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) signed off on dozens of provisional dual licenses for existing medical marijuana dispensaries, cultivators, processors and testing labs, regulators issued a first round of certificates of operation that will allow some of those businesses to begin dual-use operations to serve both the medical and adult-use markets.
So far, DCC has approved the certificates for four cultivators and six processors. There are over 200 provisional licensees, and no dispensaries or testing facilities have received the certificates to begin operations yet. But regulators have continuously said that they would be prioritizing applications for cultivators and processors to ensure that there’s enough supply for businesses to serve both markets.
“As we have consistently said, there are several factors that must be satisfied before a Certificate of Operation is issued,” DCC said on Friday. “Given the fact that cultivators, processors and testing labs are less complicated than dispensaries—and to ensure an efficient supply chain—cultivators, processes and labs receive some priority over dispensaries when it comes to issuance of Certificates of Operation to help ensure that, once
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