Marijuana Business Magazine - January 2017

INTRODUCING THE BUD GOBLET ™ Frosted Sativa Indica Hybrid Available February 2018! Now Taking Pre-Orders Delaware The state’s oft-delayed medical marijuana program is experiencing another holdup. Columbia Care, a multi- state MMJ company headquartered in New York, has postponed by at least six months the opening of its facility in The First State. Columbia Care’s facility was to be the third operating dispensary in Delaware. Because of zoning, permitting and construction delays, however, Columbia Care now isn’t expected to begin sales in Delaware until spring 2018, said a spokeswoman for the state’s health and social services department. Florida In an effort to get medical marijuana to consumers more quickly, the health department has awarded a third-party contract to produce the state’s MMJ identi- fication cards. Regulators have fallen behind because of a flood of MMJ registrations over the past several months. The $7.9 million contract went to Jacksonville- based Veritec Solutions, a subsidiary of Intuition. Under the contract – which will be paid over a five-year period – Veritec will collect $4.19 per registry identification card for the first 199,999 cards it produces annually.