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Kentucky awards 26 medical marijuana business licenses in lottery

Kentucky regulators have awarded 26 medical marijuana licenses for cultivators and processors seeking to operate in the state's…

News October 29
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Kentucky’s first medical marijuana business license goes to a testing lab

A cannabis testing laboratory is Nicholasville, Kentucky, is the first business to receive a license under the state’s…

News September 27
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Kentucky receives nearly 5,000 medical marijuana license applications

Kentucky’s Office of Medical Cannabis received 4,998 applications for medical marijuana business licenses and collected more than $27…

News September 6
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Kentucky gets landslide of medical marijuana business applications

More than 2,600 applications for medical marijuana business licenses in Kentucky were filed before Saturday's deadline.

News September 3
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Kentucky asks medical marijuana license applicants to create extensive plans

Kentucky is a lottery state that requires substantive and objective, narrative-like information from cannabis business license applicants.

News August 9
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DEA still has doubts about marijuana rescheduling, GOP lawmakers claim

Two leading congressional Republicans wrote a letter to Biden administration officials expressing concern with the marijuana rescheduling process’…

News July 29
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Curaleaf joins marijuana multistate operators pivoting to hemp-derived THC

Curaleaf Holdings almost exited hemp but instead decided to go all in, joining a growing trend among marijuana…

News July 15
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How cannabis-friendly are potential Biden successors?

Names floated as potential replacements for Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden have at least one thing in common:…

News July 9
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Kentucky medical marijuana business licensing begins July 1

Kentucky's application process for medical marijuana business licenses begins July 1, more than a year after the governor…

News June 27
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Kentucky will hold October lottery to award first marijuana business licenses

Kentucky will implement a lottery system to award the first medical marijuana business licenses, Gov. Andy Beshear announced.

News April 24
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