When Ohio’s first dispensaries opened in January 2019, regulators projected 12,000 to 24,000 patients in the first two years. By February 2021, two years in, there were 136,507 registered patients. Today, there are 252,139.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio medical marijuana regulators want to double the number of dispensary licenses in the state to satisfy patient demand, which has been much higher than anticipated since the program became operational.Ohio Board of Pharmacy staff are working on adding 73 new dispensary licenses, said Justin Sheridan, the board’s director of medical marijuana operations, at a Thursday cannabis discussion at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law.
-Summit County also comprises its own district. Currently, it has three dispensaries. The board plans to add two more, for a total of five. -Hamilton County, a single dispensary district, currently has three dispensaries. It’ll get eight more, for a total of 11., the Board of Pharmacy said it looked at registered patients’ cities of residence last year. In each dispensary district, it considered the number of current dispensaries and patients who live in the district. Its goal is to decrease the number of registered patients per dispensary in each district to below 1,200.
However, just because a company’s name was drawn and at the top of the list doesn’t mean it automatically gets a provisional license. State officials want to ensure their applications demonstrate they could lawfully run their businesses. If a company can’t comply with state laws and regulations, then Board of Pharmacy staff turn to the next name on the list in each dispensary district, said Kylynne Johnson, a spokeswoman at the Board of Pharmacy.
The Ohio Medicinal Cannabis Industry Association has pushed back on the claims that Ohio product is overpriced compared to other states. From when the program first began, prices have decreased thanks to reliable harvests, processors and a growing number of dispensaries, it said.comparing Ohio’s prices to other states’. Michigan’s price per gram of plant material, at $4.22, is half of Ohio’s, at $9.50. Other states, however, had higher prices for a gram of flower, the study showed.
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