In Surprise Move, Illinois Governor Issues Medical Marijuana Licenses

Eighteen months after medical pot was ratified in Illinois, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday postulated dozens of permits to name businesses

Though medical pot patients will still be incompetent to entrance a drug for months, a permits come as astonishing good news after a array of frustrating delays

Outgoing Gov. Pat Quinn (D) failed to emanate licenses as approaching before withdrawal bureau in early January

Rauner’s administration didn’t contend how or because a authorised examination routine was resolved so quickly, a Chicago Tribune reports. according to Reuters.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports Rauner awarded 18 medical pot cultivation licenses and 52 offered licenses

In all, a state perceived 214 applications for adult to 60 hospital licenses and 159 applications for 21 cultivation centers, the Better Government Association reported in September.

Ali Nagib, a partner executive for a Illinois arm of a nonprofit advocacy organisation National Organization for a Reform of Marijuana Laws, told The Huffington Post final month that many advocates and lawmakers are expecting medical pot patients will have entrance to a drug “sometime between late open and early tumble of this year.”

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