A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority over the state’s seed-to-sale tracking program. More than 10,000 licensed medical marijuana businesses in the state today filed the lawsuit. Filing it was Tulsa law firm Viridian Legal Services.“Since June 2018, the OMMA has failed to implement any kind of seed-to-sale tracking program. For more than a year and a half they have required businesses to submit monthly reports detailing the amount of cannabis that they ve cultivated the amount of cannabis they ve processed, the amount of cannabis they ve sold and to date the OMMA has never done anything with that information,” said attorney Ronald Edward Durbin II, who filed the suit.Now, he said, the state is sending this information to a third-party company out of state and is requiring dispensaries to pay that company.“In this process, they agreed to provide Metrc with a monopoly in the state
By: Jordan Tidwell
TULSA, Oklahoma -
A class action lawsuit was filed Thursday against the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority for its seed-to-sale tracking system the state is implementing May 1.
The state contracted a Florida based company for the program and some in the medical marijuana business say it ll cost the customers more.
The plaintiff, Beau Zoellner, says this is a nightmare situation and that if dispensaries and growers are using this system, it s ultimately going to cost customers 12 to 15 percent more to purchase medical marijuana in Oklahoma.
Zoellner and his attorney, Ronald Durbin, say they aren t upset with a tracking system but, rather, the fact the state contracted an out of state company for the job.
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Okla. Medical Marijuana Authority For Upcoming Seed-To-Sale Tracking System
A class action lawsuit was filed Thursday against the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority for its seed-to-sale tracking system the state is implementing May 1.
The state contracted a Florida based company for the program and some in the medical marijuana business say it ll cost the customers more.
The plaintiff, Beau Zoellner, says this is a nightmare situation and that if dispensaries and growers are using this system, it s ultimately going to cost customers 12 to 15 percent more to purchase medical marijuana in Oklahoma.
Zoellner and his attorney, Ronald Durbin, say they aren t upset with a tracking system but, rather, the fact the state contracted an out of state company for the job.
Oklahoman
A medical marijuana business has filed a lawsuit over the state s seed-to-sale tracking program, alleging it created an unconstitutional tax and violates anti-monopoly laws.
Dr Z Leaf Cultivation and its associated processing and dispensary businesses asked the district court in Okmulgee County to create a class action, which would allow thousands of other cannabis companies to join.
If the lawsuit it successful, it could upend the state s attempt to closely follow marijuana plants and products as they are grown, processed, packaged and sold to patients. Officials have said a tracking system prevents cannabis from leaving the normal and legal retail pathways.