FRANKFORT, Ky. (WCHS) — Three dozen applicants in Kentucky were selected to receive a medical cannabis dispensary license in the first round of a lottery selection process.
“All the medical cannabis in our program has to be cultivated, processes, tested and dispense by license businesses here in the Commonwealth,” Gov. Andy Beshear stated.
State officials maintain the selection process gave businesses a fair and equal chance at a license, but some entrepreneurs are already signaling their opposition.
Kentucky resident Ginny Savilla applied for two medical cannabis business licenses in different regions of the state. The fee for each license was $5,000.
“One application in Region 3 for a location in Maysville, Kentucky, and I have one here in Lexington, Kentucky,” Savilla explained. “The process got flooded with applications and it took the odds of normal people like me getting a license down to almost none.”
Savilla has questioned why more licenses were not made available.
“The governor is in a huge hurry,” she said. “He wants dispensaries open faster the plants can even grow.”
Kentucky officials wanted the process of awarding medical cannabis business licenses to be open and transparent with random drawings held at the Kentucky Lottery Center in Louisville.
“It is critical that our cannabis business license framework ensures the new industry is stable and sustainable,” explained Kentucky Office of Medical Cannabis executive director Sam Flynn.
Savilla and others will have another shot at a medical cannabis business license as more random drawings will be made in Lexington on Monday, Dec. 16.
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