Nearly ninety percent of cannabis cultivator applicants will get turned down

Posted on December 30, 2014

Many hoping to run cultivation centers will be turned down. (WJBC file photo)

By INN

Of the nearly one-hundred-sixty applicants, eighty-seven percent of them vying for a limited number of licenses to cultivate marijuana won’t get the news they were hoping for.

It’s expected this week state regulators behind Illinois’ medical cannabis pilot program will award the twenty-one licenses for cultivation centers across the state. One-hundred-fifty-nine prospects applied. A person close to the situation says the companies that get awarded licenses will be revealed, but not their investors.

The source says other information of the growing operations’ proposals, like security procedures, will also not be revealed. It’s unclear when licenses for sixty dispensing centers across the state will be awarded for the four-year pilot program.

Only six-hundred patients have been approved to use the drug so far, though the state says hundreds more have applied.

 

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