Losing medical marijuana cultivator applicants have ferociously litigated the constitutionality of Ohio’s new program, the validity of the application process, and alleged fraud and abuse in selecting winning cultivator provisional licensees. The scarcity of provisional licenses (and corresponding certificates of operation), combined with the lucrative opportunity to be one of Ohio’s first legal marijuana cultivators and distributors, fueled the litigation. Though the litigation has thus far failed to derail the entire program, specific plaintiffs have achieved a measure of success, ranging from a prompt administrative hearing to an isolated scoring error that resulted in the award of an additional license.

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