On Monday, October 28th, Kentucky held a lottery for cultivator and processor licenses, with 16 total licenses available for cultivators (10 for Tier I cultivators, four for Tier II cultivators, and two for Tier III cultivators) and 10 licenses available for processors.
The winners in the first Kentucky cannabis license lottery were as follows:
Cultivators
Tier I (up to 2,500 square feet of plant canopy)
- L&O Legacies in Boyd County
- Synapse Remedies LLC in Jefferson County
- CW Bluegrass, LLC in Davis County
- Popp Cultivation LLC in Bracken County
- Arizona Bay Investments LLC in Lincoln County
- Wong Investments, LLC in Christian County
- Joseph Serock in Christian County
- Elevated Essence LLC in Bullitt County
- Slaughter Branch LLC in Hopkins County
- Goeing Blue LLC in Fayette County
Tier II (up to 10,000 square feet of plant canopy)
- NG Health LLC in Fayette County
- Armory Kentucky LLC in Estill County
- JMOKY LLC in Warren County
- Canopy Capital LLC in Grant County
Tier III (up to 25,000 square feet of plant canopy)
- Natural State Greengrass CannaCo LLC in Warren County
- KYSKAPP LLC in Barren County
Processors
- Bijal Kentucky LLC in Boyd County
- AJ Alchemy Labs LLC in Barren County
- Jill’s Dispensary LLC in Christian County
- Hilltop Healing Investco LLC in Warren County
- Limestone Processing LLC in Fayette County
- LMMKY LLC in Warren County
- One Leaf Technologies LLC in Bullitt County
- Ice House Processing LLC in Fulton County
- 1248 KYP LLC in Jefferson County
- Kaldem Holdings in Muhlenberg County
The Office of Medical Cannabis (OMC) previously issued safety compliance facility licenses to KCA Laboratories LLC, Carbon Labs LLC, and FB Thompson LLC. There is no cap on the number of testing facilities in Kentucky, and therefore a lottery was not necessary for this license category.
OMC has not yet announced a date for the dispensary lottery, as the office is continuing to work through the review of more than 4,000 dispensary license applications. During the livestream of the cultivator/processor lottery, Director Sam Flynn said an announcement would be made in the coming days.
