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Marijuana Licenses

An appeals court in Missouri upheld an order compelling the state’s health services department to produce certain information relating to medical marijuana license applicants. Given that applications are ranked against each other, the “only way to determine” whether the department arbitrarily denied certain applications is to compare the data in them, the court ruled.

/ May 18, 2021
In this Sept. 25, 2018 photo, a worker holds a marijuana plant leaf in a massive tomato greenhouse being renovated to grow pot in Delta, British Columbia, that is operated by Pure Sunfarms, a joint venture between tomato grower Village Farms International, and a licensed medical marijuana producer, Emerald Health Therapeutics. On Oct. 17, 2018, Canada will become the second and largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An appeals court in Missouri upheld an order compelling the state’s health services department to produce certain information relating to medical marijuana license applicants. Given that applications are ranked against each other, the “only way to determine” whether the department arbitrarily denied certain applications is to compare the data in them, the court ruled.   

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