Dates announced for KY medical marijuana dispensary license lotteries

Kentucky Office of Medical Marijuana Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday that he will choose which medical marijuana dispensary applicants will be granted licenses starting at the end of November.

The Office of Medical Marijuana will select the winners at two o’clock Lotteries run by Kentucky Lottery Corporation in Louisville. The first lottery, scheduled for Nov. 25, will determine winners in nine of the state’s 11 dispensary licensing regions. Four winners will be selected for each region, and each county in that region will be eligible to receive one dispensary.

The second lottery, to be held on Dec. 16, will determine four winners in the remaining two counties, as well as winners in Jefferson and Fayette counties, which are scheduled to receive two dispensaries each due to their size.

Four winners will be chosen for the following dispensary regions on November 25:

Region 3: Northeast
Region 4: South Central
District 5: Cumberland
Region 6: Mountain
Zone 7: Pennyrile
District 8: Western Kentucky
District 9: Lincoln Road
Region 10: Northern Kentucky
District 11: Green River

Four winners will be selected for the entire Bluegrass and Kentuckiana regions. Two additional winners will be determined for both Fayette County and Jefferson County:

Region 1: Bluegrass
Region 1: (Fayette County only)
Region 2: Kentucky
Region 2: Kentuckiana (Jefferson County only)

Beshear also announced Thursday that business license applications for safety compliance facilities will reopen for November. Licenses for safety compliance facilities, sometimes called testing laboratories, are the only type of medical marijuana business licenses currently distributed without a lottery because the law allows an unlimited number of them.

Beshear’s announcements came after the Kentucky Office of Medical Marijuana announced the 26 winners. medical marijuana cultivator and processor licenses License draw on Monday. Two applicants from Jefferson County, 1248 KYP LLC and Synapse Remedies LLC, were announced as winners.

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