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Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts)
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 07:10 PM Aug 2018

Oklahoma awards first medical marijuana patient licenses

Source: Associated Press


Updated 3:11 pm CDT, Saturday, August 25, 2018

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Health started awarding medical marijuana patient licenses on Saturday.

The online application system went live at 10 a.m. Saturday at www.OMMA.ok.gov for all potential medical marijuana patients, growers, dispensaries and caregivers. The department had received 569 patient applications by noon, according to spokesman Tony Sellars.

Officials awarded 23 licenses to patients Saturday to test the approval process and will resume approving applications Monday, Sellers said.

The agency had received two caregiver, 122 dispensary, 194 grower and 42 processor applications by noon, Sellers said.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Applications-for-medical-marijuana-beginning-in-13182237.php

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Oklahoma awards first medical marijuana patient licenses (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2018 OP
good start Angry Dragon Aug 2018 #1
Hell has frozen over. Tom Cole expresses concerns about Trump, and we have issued Tess49 Aug 2018 #2
OOOOOOOOOOOOOklahoma! Where the wind goes sweeping down the...who wants pizza? TeamPooka Aug 2018 #3
Gives me hope... steventh Aug 2018 #4
Jeez, Oklahoma with medical cannabis Farmer-Rick Aug 2018 #5

Tess49

(1,580 posts)
2. Hell has frozen over. Tom Cole expresses concerns about Trump, and we have issued
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 08:32 PM
Aug 2018

our first medical marijuana licenses. Never thought I would see either here.

steventh

(2,143 posts)
4. Gives me hope...
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 06:32 AM
Aug 2018

that I'll see legal medical marijuana come to NC in my lifetime. Thanks for posting this great news.

Farmer-Rick

(10,212 posts)
5. Jeez, Oklahoma with medical cannabis
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:30 PM
Aug 2018

Tennessee likes arresting cannabis smokers. It gives the police something to do when they aren't writing tickets to fund their department.

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