DPH Tries to Defend Integrity of Dispensary Application Process

Massachusetts is defending the method that they have implemented to select the companies that will run medical marijuana dispensaries; however, they have yet to touch on the subject of why these applicants’ are not being verified until after they have had their provisional licenses approved.

The head of the Massachusetts medical marijuana program has since stated that the Public Health Department “rigorously verifies” all the information found in the application to ensure that nothing has been falsified or is not accurate. This statement follows the allegations that the health department has been playing political favoritism when it comes to the issuing of dispensary licenses.

It seems strange that the department of public health chose not to review the accuracy of these applications before they decided to give out these provisional licenses. The director of the state medical marijuana program responded by saying that “app applicants signed a sworn statement, under the pains and penalties of perjury, indicating that the information provided in their application was complete and accurate.”