Cultivators of medical cannabis would be allowed in industrial park (I-2) zones in an ordinance under consideration by the Richmond City Commission. All medicinal cannabis businesses are currently prohibited in that zone. Medicinal cannabis was legalized in Kentucky as of Jan. 1.
In a lottery held last year to determine businesses that would be licensed, Natural State GreenGrass CannaCo was awarded a license for a cultivator tier III business in Warren County. The company requested to instead locate in Madison County. That request was approved in February.
Natural State GreenCass CannaCo's listing with the Kentucky Secretary of State's O4ce lists an Arkansas address for the company. It is managed by MMLK, Inc., a company whose registered agent is Lexington attorney James H. Frazier III. It is one of 350 new businesses organized by Sean Clarkson, a co-founder and CFO of Dark Horse Cannabis of Arkansas, in the month leading up to the deadline to apply for medicinal cannabis business licenses in Kentucky.
In January, Richmond commissioners approved tax incentives for "Project Dark Horse," with the order approving the incentives stating that the project "involves the potential location of a manufacturing facility" in Richmond.
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