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Medical cannabis patients hoping to buy products at the dispensary licensed for Sauget will have to wait at least another month.
The latest delays besetting the The Green Solution dispensary, which abuts Gateway Grizzlies minor league baseball stadium, stem from computer problems, according to Tanya Griffin, who oversees TGS Illinois, which is owned by a Colorado-based firm.
"The specific things we're working through is integrating some of our POS (point of sale), bio-track, some Internet issues, getting it into the space," said Griffin, a 1987 graduate of Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville.
Construction has finished on the dispensary's 8,000-square-foot building, just east of the Grizzlies stadium, but the facility still has not received the final state inspection before it is allowed to open for business, according to Griffin.
Griffin acknowledged she is concerned about the lower-than-expected population of patients who've received cards under the Illinois medical cannabis pilot program. So far, 5,600 patients have qualified for state-issued cards – or about one-tenth of what investors were hoping the patient population would be by year three in the five-year pilot program.
"It's absolutely a concern," Griffin said. "But we're going to have to weather the ride like everybody else."
The Illinois Department of Public Health has approved applications for 5,600 qualifying patients, including 38 persons younger than 18, since it began accepting applications for the medical cannabis program on Sept. 2, 2014. About 7,400 individuals have submitted a complete application to IDPH.
When it opens, The Green Solution would be the second to open in the metro-east. HCI Alternatives, 1014 Eastport Drive, Collinsville, opened for business in late January.
One potentially positive piece of news for Griffin and other cannabis entrepreneurs in Illinois stemmed from a recent announcement by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which has quietly revealed that it expects to decide within the next three months if cannabis should be removed from the list of Schedule I controlled substances, a highly restrictive federal designation reserved for the most dangerous categories of drugs.
Although 23 states and Washington, D.C. now permit some form of medical marijuana, cannabis remains in the tightly-regulated Schedule I category alongside heroin, LSD, ecstasy, and other substances deemed to have a high abuse potential and no accepted medical use. Cocaine and methamphetamine, which are far more dangerous than cannabis, are listed below marijuana in the less restrictive Schedule II category.
TGS is among 52 dispensaries awarded licenses in February 2015 by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
News Moderator: Robert Celt 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: IL: Sauget Medical Cannabis Dispensary Won't Open For At Least A Month
Author: Mike Fitzgerald
Contact: Belleville News-Democrat
Photo Credit: Seth Perlman
Website: Belleville News-Democrat
The latest delays besetting the The Green Solution dispensary, which abuts Gateway Grizzlies minor league baseball stadium, stem from computer problems, according to Tanya Griffin, who oversees TGS Illinois, which is owned by a Colorado-based firm.
"The specific things we're working through is integrating some of our POS (point of sale), bio-track, some Internet issues, getting it into the space," said Griffin, a 1987 graduate of Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville.
Construction has finished on the dispensary's 8,000-square-foot building, just east of the Grizzlies stadium, but the facility still has not received the final state inspection before it is allowed to open for business, according to Griffin.
Griffin acknowledged she is concerned about the lower-than-expected population of patients who've received cards under the Illinois medical cannabis pilot program. So far, 5,600 patients have qualified for state-issued cards – or about one-tenth of what investors were hoping the patient population would be by year three in the five-year pilot program.
"It's absolutely a concern," Griffin said. "But we're going to have to weather the ride like everybody else."
The Illinois Department of Public Health has approved applications for 5,600 qualifying patients, including 38 persons younger than 18, since it began accepting applications for the medical cannabis program on Sept. 2, 2014. About 7,400 individuals have submitted a complete application to IDPH.
When it opens, The Green Solution would be the second to open in the metro-east. HCI Alternatives, 1014 Eastport Drive, Collinsville, opened for business in late January.
One potentially positive piece of news for Griffin and other cannabis entrepreneurs in Illinois stemmed from a recent announcement by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which has quietly revealed that it expects to decide within the next three months if cannabis should be removed from the list of Schedule I controlled substances, a highly restrictive federal designation reserved for the most dangerous categories of drugs.
Although 23 states and Washington, D.C. now permit some form of medical marijuana, cannabis remains in the tightly-regulated Schedule I category alongside heroin, LSD, ecstasy, and other substances deemed to have a high abuse potential and no accepted medical use. Cocaine and methamphetamine, which are far more dangerous than cannabis, are listed below marijuana in the less restrictive Schedule II category.
TGS is among 52 dispensaries awarded licenses in February 2015 by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
News Moderator: Robert Celt 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: IL: Sauget Medical Cannabis Dispensary Won't Open For At Least A Month
Author: Mike Fitzgerald
Contact: Belleville News-Democrat
Photo Credit: Seth Perlman
Website: Belleville News-Democrat
