12/23/16
by News Department on 12/23/16Medical Marijuana...
Secretary of Health Dr. Karen Murphy Wednesday gave a briefing of the status of Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Program, stating that applications for medical marijuana grower/processors and dispensaries will be available beginning January 17, 2017.
The release of permit applications will be available that date at www.health.pa.gov.
Secretary Murphy said in the first phase of the program, there will be up to 12 permits issued for grower/processors across Pennsylvania’s six medical marijuana regions, and up to 27 permits issued for dispensaries.
The decision for which counties will be issued permits in this first phase was determined by using the department’s medical data, as well as comments from more than 5,000 patients and nearly 900 potential grower/processors and dispensary applicants.
Permit applications will be accepted from February 20, 2017 until March 20, 2017.
The medical marijuana program became effective on May 17, and is expected to be fully implemented by 2018.
