Kentucky Gov Beshear Announces Lottery To Award Medical Marijuana Licenses: ‘A Chance For Everyone’ Who Meet Criteria, Not Just Big Companies
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) unveiled plans on Thursday to utilize a lottery system for granting initial licenses to businesses vying for entry into the state’s medical marijuana industry.
Speaking at a press conference, Beshear called the lottery approach a fair way to give all qualifying applicants an equal opportunity to receive a license for the program, which is expected to launch in January 2025.
Set for this coming October, the lottery should remove any temptation to lobby to “get a leg up in different ways that we don’t want to see,” Beshear said at his weekly press conference, reported ABC News.
“It reduces or eliminates litigation, and it creates a more fair process, not one where people bid against each other and only then the …