This story was originally published by the Missouri Independent. A company denied licenses to grow medical marijuana in Missouri urged the state Supreme Court last.
A company denied licenses to grow medical marijuana in Missouri urged the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to compel regulators to provide application information the health department has argued it's constitutionally obligated to protect.
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A state appeals court ruled Tuesday that Missouri regulators were wrong to withhold copies of successful medical marijuana applications from litigants who are appealing a denied license.
The Missouri Court of Appeals in the Western District sided with a California-based company that argued it needs copies of those applications to prove it was wrongly denied two licenses to grow medical marijuana in Missouri.
Judge Lisa White Hardwick wrote that applications were ranked competitively against other applications. So the only way to determine whether the state denied a license in an arbitrary or capricious manner, she wrote, is to compare unsuccessful applications against successful ones.