Delaware officials expect a signed contract from the company that won the bid to open Kent County’s first medical marijuana dispensary this week.
The state began seeking bids last year. Since then officials received 11 bid applications for two licenses to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Kent and Sussex counties.
Officials cannot disclose the bidders until negotiations are complete, and bids are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act in Delaware.
Currently, there is one dispensary operating in Delaware. First State Compassion Center opened as a pilot program in Wilmington in 2015
Patients living downstate have long-awaited the day additional compassion centers would open in Delaware, traveling sometimes over 150 miles to Wilmington each week.
Some have been so frustrated that they’ve renewed a lawsuit against the state Department of Health and Social Services alleging that officials have not abided by a timeline set in the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act. The act said that all three counties must have a Compassion Center by Jan. 1, 2013. The case is moving forward.
Who can get medical marijuana in Delaware
Delawareans must apply for a medical marijuana card in order to purchase at a dispensary. A doctor must first certify that they have certain qualifying conditions to be eligible for medical marijuana treatment.
Children and adults
Terminal illness
Intractable epilepsy
A medical condition that causes debilitating pain, seizures, intractable nausea or muscle spasms
Adults only
Cancer
HIV
AIDS
ALS / Lou Gehrig’s Disease
PTSD
Autism with self-injurious or aggressive behavior
Alzheimers disease that causes anxious or agitated behavior
Severe cirrhosis with likely need of a liver transplant
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