Medical marijuana processing plant in Johnstown breaks ground

A big player in the medical marijuana business breaks ground on a new operation here in central Ohio.Apeks Supercritical has manufactured the equipment for others to process the plants for almost two decades.Now Apeks’ sister company, Ohio Grown Therapies, will have their own processing facility, and possibly more.The new facility will be built adjacent to Apeks. CEO Andy Joseph says the original idea was to have a marijuana complex but Ohio Grown Therapies was granted only a processing li