PA medical marijuana growers can sell directly to patients

Ten MSOs including Cresco Labs, Curaleaf Holdings, Jushi Holdings, Green Thumb Industries, PharmaCann, TerrAscend, and Trulieve own operational licenses in Pennsylvania, competing against just ten independent grower/processors and a handful of independent dispensaries.

Under the new law, sponsored by seven Republicans and one Democrat, independent medical cannabis cultivators/processors will be allowed to apply for a dispensary permit with up to three retail locations to sell directly to the state’s nearly one million registered patients and caregivers. The new law also opens the door for independent retailers to apply for grow permits and start producing products for in-house sales.

Pennsylvania’s 2016 medical marijuana act stipulated that only five of the state’s twenty-five grower/processor license holders could vertically integrate and sell directly to patients. That meant the other twenty were forced to sell to dispensary middlemen, leading to an MSO monopoly that needed a “targeted corrective,” according to House Health Committee Chair Dan Frankel (D).

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