January 28, 2020
Missouri accepted applications
for granting medical marijuana licenses. They had some sort of scoring system
that, according to the losers, made no sense, and legal challenges are already
being filed.
For me, the kicker is that it’s
legal for a winner to sell the license. One Los Angeles broker has already
contacted someone who didn’t win and asked if he wanted to buy it. Another
website offers a license in the Kansas City area, but the buyer must have at
least $1 million.
Growers are supposed to meet
guidelines. If a company didn’t win in the first round, what makes it qualified
now? Is the state overseeing license transfers?
Furthermore, in my opinion, it
would only be fair, as well as prudent, to award an unwanted license to the company
who was next in line in the rating system. The state should have made sure that that would happen. It probably would have cut down on the number of applications if the first place, if brokers had known that they need not apply.
These licenses aren’t concert
tickets. They shouldn’t be allowed to be scalped.
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