Missouri DHSS to open ‘microbusiness’ marijuana license applications in July

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Division of Well being and Senior Providers stated Tuesday will start taking functions for “microbusiness” licenses July 27.

Modification 3 — which voters handed in November 2022, legalizing leisure marijuana within the state — requires Missouri to start issuing small-business licenses for retail gross sales and wholesale manufacturing by September.

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To fulfill that deadline, state officers will open the applying course of from July 27 to Aug. 10, 2023.

Types and directions on how these considering beginning a brand new dispensary or wholesale facility might be obtainable by June 6.

There might be six licenses issued in every of Missouri’s eight congressional districts, two dispensaries and 4 for wholesale, by way of random lottery in October 2023. The Missouri Lottery will conduct the drawing, in response to DHSS.

The microbusiness licenses “are designed to permit marginalized or under-represented people to take part within the authorized marijuana market,” DHSS stated.

Dispensaries promote merchandise to customers, whereas wholesale services domesticate and manufacture marijuana or marijuana-infused merchandise.

Just one submission from a person or entity is allowed per drawing.

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