COLUMBUS – Three companies applied to sell medical marijuana in Sandusky County by Friday’s statewide application deadline, the state’s Pharmacy Board announced Monday.
There were 370 permit applications filed for medical marijuana dispensaries throughout Ohio. The three Sandusky County applicants were Cannamed Therapeutics LLC, Ohio Way LLC and The Forest Fremont LLC.
Three counties — Sandusky, Ottawa and Seneca — will share one dispensary, according to the state licensing rules. No applications were filed in Ottawa or Seneca counties, the other two counties in the state’s Northwest District 7.
Erik Vaughan, CEO of The Forest Ohio, said in October that his company was applying for five dispensary licenses in Ohio — the maximum allowed — with the state’s Pharmacy Board and hoped to open a facility in Fremont.
“We’re thrilled. We’re thrilled to be a part of the city of Fremont,” Vaughan said after a Fremont City Council meeting.
Council unanimously passed an ordinance that night to allow a medical marijuana dispensary in the city.
The News-Messenger requested copies of the applications filed in Sandusky County from the pharmacy board, but was only given the company’s business name, primary contact and proposed county of operation.
In a separate licensing process to open medical marijuana production facilities, Standard Wellness Company LLC applied with the state’s Department of Commerce to build a proposed 50,000-square-foot facility at Gibsonburg’s Clearview Industrial Park.
The village is still waiting for the department to announce if Standard Wellness is one of the companies that will receive a permit allotted for Level I growers in the state.
Gibsonburg Mayor Steve Fought wrote a letter for Fremont City Council members in support of a medical marijuana dispensary.
“You will not have to look hard to find that many of your friends, your family members and your neighbors suffer from conditions that can be treated by use of this medication,” Fought said in the letter, adding that Fremont and Sandusky County would be at the center of a growing trend if the council allowed a medical marijuana dispensary in the city.
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