Ill. begins taking marijuana business applications

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Entrepreneurs wanting to cultivate or dispense medical marijuana under a new Illinois law are getting their chance to be considered but few, if any, have come forward on the first day the state began accepting applications.

Hours after the state began accepting applications on Monday, Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said that by noon not a single application had come in and she had not heard if any came in later in the day.

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