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Virginia regulators gave final approval Wednesday to four of five companies working to open the state's first medical cannabis oil dispensaries, but left a decision on a planned dispensary in Bristol unresolved over an eleventh-hour request to move it to a different location.

The Virginia Board of Pharmacy didn't have enough members to vote on the Bristol dispensary because one member, Marion pharmacist Kristopher Ratliff had to recuse himself because he had written a letter of recommendation for Dharma Pharmaceuticals, the company that received initial approval to open a dispensary in the former Bristol Mall.

Details on Dharma's alternative location were not immediately clear. A board staff member said the companies' requests to move their dispensaries were being kept confidential along with all other application records.

Bristol officials had asked Dharma to consider moving its planned dispensary because it wouldn't mix well with the casino that resort developers are pushing to build at the same mall. The board will reconsider the Bristol decision at a meeting next month.