Muhlenberg County business awarded medical cannabis processing license

Kentucky is moving closer to legalizing medical marijuana, with 26 businesses selected on Monday to cultivate and process. The businesses were selected through a state lottery held in Louisville. Of the 26 businesses selected, there are 16 cultivators and ten processors. Kaldem Holdings (5613), one of the selected processors, in located in Muhlenberg County. Applicants will have 15 days to pay their license fee to the Office of Medical Cannabis. 

“All medical cannabis that is cultivated, processed, tested and dispensed will be done so right here in Kentucky,” Gov. Andy Beshear said in a news release. “Today’s lottery helps ensure those medical cannabis businesses can become operational so that Kentuckians with serious medical conditions can have safe, affordable access to the health care relief and choice they deserve at the soonest possible date.”. Medical marijuana is expected to be available as soon as January 2025, once dispensaries and other components are operational.

"The lottery system is an approach that was adopted after reviewing best practices from other states that have an established medical cannabis market," Sam Flynn, executive director of the Office of Medical Cannabis, said in a news release. "Since day one, our primary goal was to make the application and selection process as fair and transparent as possible." A separate lottery for dispensary licenses will be held at a letter date. Starting January 1, 2025, Kentuckians with qualifying medical conditions, such as cancer, chronic pain, epilepsy, and PTSD, will be eligible to apply for medical cannabis cards.

CULTIVATOR TIER I

• L&O Legacies – Boyd County

• Synapse Remedies LLC – Jefferson County

• CW Bluegrass, LLC – Daviess County

• Popp Cultivation LLC – Bracken County

• Arizona Bay Investments LLC – Lincoln County

• Wong Investments, LLC – Christian County

• Joseph Serock – Christian County

• Elevated Essence LLC – Bullitt County

• Slaughter Branch LLC – Hopkins County

• Goeing Blue LLC – Fayette County

CULTIVATOR TIER II

• NG Health LLC – Fayette County

• Armory Kentucky LLC – Estill County

• JMOKY LLC – Warren County

• Canopy Capital LLC – Grant County

  
  

CULTIVATOR TIER III

• Natural State GreenGrass CannaCo LLC – Warren County

• KSYKAPP, LLC – Barren County

  
  

Processor

• KYP LLC – Jefferson County

• Kaldem Holdings – Muhlenberg County

• Limestone Processing – Fayette County

• Hilltop Healing Investco – Warren County

• Bijal Kentucky LLC – Boyd County

• AJ Alchemy Labs LLC – Barren County

• Jill’s Dispensary LLC – Christian County

• One Leaf Technologies LLC – Bullitt County

• Ice House Processing, LLC – Fulton County

• LMMKY LLC – Warren County

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