Facilities in Weston and Dearborn have been approved for licensing for manufacturing of medical marijuana-infused products.
Earlier this month, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services issued 86 licenses for manufacturing facilities. Marijuana-infused products are products infused with marijuana or an extract thereof and are intended for use or consumption by a means other than smoking. This can include but is not limited to edible products, ointments, tinctures and concentrates.
Two local licenses were approved for Flora Ceres Inc., located at 18475 Lober Road in Weston and at 18150 Highway MM in Dearborn.
Licenses for production, cultivation and testing facilities were approved last month, with facilities in Platte City and the KCI Airport area. No cultivation facilities were approved in Platte County.
Licensing for dispensaries — for which several Platte County applications were filed — will be announced by the end of the month. The dispensaries are expected to open by mid 2020 to provide medical marijuana for the approximately 25,000 Missouri residents who have so far been granted patient identification cards allowing them to purchase, possess and use medical marijuana.
The state will license 192 dispensaries in Missouri this year, with more than 1,100 applications received, including several from Platte County. Dispensaries are proposed in Weston, Dearborn, Platte City, Parkville and Kansas City North.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has been tasked with overseeing the rollout of medical marijuana in Missouri, which was approved by voters in 2018. DHSS has used a third-party blind scoring service to choose which operations to license.