On Friday, Ohio’s 132 medical marijuana dispensaries will be able to apply for recreational sales permits. Such sales could begin by the end of June.
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Ohio is getting close to the start of recreational marijuana sales seven months after voters overwhelmingly passed Issue 2, the citizen-initiated statute that legalized recreational marijuana in the state.
On Friday, Ohio’s 132 medical marijuana dispensaries will be able to apply for recreational sales permits. Processing of the applications by the Division of Cannabis Control could take two weeks, which means recreational sales could begin before the end of the month.
At Amplify dispensary on Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights, the staff and stock are expanding, and the store is figuring out how to meet the expected spike in demand for cannabis flower, edibles, beverages, and more. AJ Caraballo, Amplify’s retail director, says the company will ensure that its medical marijuana patients are not squeezed out by the higher demand and the anticipated long lines in the early days of recreational marijuana sales.
“We want to make sure that our medical patients will be able to skip the lines and still get priority care
