Medical marijuana to be made in Ulster
State and company mum on site; 2 dispensaries coming to Dutchess
A company that two years ago was denied a request to grow and manufacture medical marijuana in northern New York will be allowed to do so in Ulster County, the state announced Tuesday.
PalliaTech NY, based on Long Island, is among five companies given permission by the state Department of Health to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana to improve patient access across the state. Two new dispensaries, operated by other companies, will be in Dutchess County, the state said in the same announcement.
It was not immediately clear where PalliaTech NY’s Ulster County operation will be. Neither company spokeswoman Carly Sullivan nor the state health department would provide that information Tuesday.
PalliaTech previously proposed a manufacturing operation near Plattsburgh and dispensaries in Newburgh, Brooklyn, Rochester and
Utica.
The others four companies given the green light on Tuesday are Citiva Medical and Valley Agriceuticals, which will manufacture in Orange County; Fiorello Pharmaceuticals, which will manufacture in Schenectady County; and New York Canna, which will manufacture in Onondaga County.
The five companies also will have dispensing facilities in 14 counties across the state. Among the dispensaries will be two at unspecified locations in Dutchess County — one run by Citiva, the other by Valley Agriceuticals, state health officials said.
The state in 2015 granted licenses to five companies to manufacture medical marijuana in New York. A proposal by a company called New York Growing Partners to manufacture medical marijuana in Saugerties was turned down at that time, but the state did approve a medical marijuana dispensary, operated by Etain LLC, at a site in the town of Ulster.
The dispensary later was established in the former Peckham Asphalt storage building on state Route 28.
Valley Agriceuticals, one of the companies that won approval Tuesday for an Orange County manufacturing operation, was among the rejected applicants two years ago, when it proposed manufacturing medical marijuana in the town of Wallkill.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law in July 2014 allowing patients with cancer, AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and certain other medical conditions to obtain nonsmokeable versions of marijuana that can be ingested or vaporized. Also included in the regulations were certain spinal cord injuries, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies and Huntington’s disease and symptoms including severe or chronic pain, seizures, severe nausea, persistent muscle spasms and wasting syndrome.
The state Department of Health said Tuesday that there now are more than 25,000 certified patients and over 1,000 registered practitioners in New York’s medical marijuana program.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law in July 2014 allowing patients with cancer, AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and certain other medical conditions to obtain nonsmokeable versions of marijuana.