A new complaint in Commonwealth Court seeks again to stop the state's much-vaunted cannabis research program before it can get off the ground.
The filing Tuesday by a group of current medical marijuana growers and dispensary operators raises several concerns about appearances of pay-to-play and says the participants in the research program won't be required to do more than promise to conduct scientific studies.
Calling themselves "Medical Marijuana Advocates for Research," the current growers and operators — who say they collectively have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in application and startup costs — claim the research program won't deliver "high quality" scientific studies because the research requirements are weak.