Court orders Pa.’s health department to release information on medical marijuana program

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For more than a year, the Department of Health has fought to block Spotlight PA’s request for information. Judges rejected the agency’s arguments calling one claim “undeveloped.”

The newsroom specifically requested aggregate data — information that would not identify individual patients.information publicly available in the past.

The Department of Health still refused to provide the information. It sued Spotlight PA in Commonwealth Court, and a panel of three judges heard arguments in the case in May. In the same case, Commonwealth Court ruled in favor of the Department of Health on a separate matter. The court overturned a decision by the Office of Open Records that said the department failed to prove that certain written policies and procedures did not exist.

 

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PA_Spotlight you are asking the wrong questions, which is why so many people call you Fake News and you have such a small audience Better questions would be Why did PaLegis allow corrupt foreign corporations to capture Pennsylvania’s biggest cash crop? Why did Trulieve get $2M

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