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in politics tonight expanding Nevada's marijuana industry has become a very controversial process punctuated by lawsuits by existing dispensaries who claim they were left out of the next round of licenses it is an issue the politics now team has been looking into for the past five months since the state issued 61 new provisional dispensary licenses and politics now co-host Patrick Walker live in studio with new information well Brian and Denise let's think about this it's important to keep in mind these are applications for public privileged licenses with a process that really has been anything but transparent it's essentially been shrouded in secrecy but for the first time we're getting a look at how those licenses were scored when the owners of the Grove dispensary near the Thomas and Mack Center learned they were denied new licenses it came as a surprise when we find out we found out we didn't get any licenses I was just flabbergasted co-owner John Ritter says the dispensary has been used as a model for state regulators when giving tours to officials from other states who come to Las Vegas to learn about how the silver states marijuana industry functions the Department of Taxation which oversees the marijuana industry only tells a business whether it was approved or denied for a license and allows them to view how they scored in a number of areas the department citing regulation says the scores and the applications themselves are not public information Ritter says he would have been happy to cut his losses if he could understand why his application received the scores it did and how those compared to other successful applications it would just show your scores and the minute that you started asking questions they'd say well we can't answer that can answer that can't answer that when we first tried to get answers our requests to see the applications or some of the information from them were denied now people who have seen the information are showing us examples of what is catching their attention essence dispensaries was awarded the highest amount of new dispensary provisional licenses eight spread out across the state on two of the applications one source pointed out that the same three graders gave the same scores on ten of the 24 criteria and in each of those cases one grader was only one point off from the other two the combined summary scores between the two applications mirror each other with one exception the applications were scored on three different days the concern raised how can the scores for two different locations be so similar in January we were made aware that at least one Tax Commissioner had some questions as well and through a public records request we obtained questions about the scoring process that were raised by Commissioner George calluses the agency's responses were not included and it took a second request for us to obtain those answers the questions show a concern by Colossus over the specifics of how categories were graded and how the graters six people hired from a temp agency in Carson City were trained the department pointed to being able to use its discretion to hire temporary workers and the training of those workers by Department staff to use as graders in response to those questions commissioner calluses declined our request for an interview for this story about his concerns in response to our previous questions of the department about the process in transparency last month a spokesperson told us quote while we do sympathize with the frustrations of those who did not get licenses it stands to reason that those entities that submitted the strongest applications and scored the highest would have ranked in the top of the applicant pools within the jurisdictions they applied also related movement today at the governor's request a bill to bring more transparency to the application process and allow more of the information that we've been requesting to be released passed unanimously out of the Assembly Senate bill 32 previously passed unanimously out of the Senate it now goes to Governor Sissel ex dis sis elects desk rather to be signed into law sis alack has noted in the past that he would sign this bill back over to you well