Medical marijuana transportation license approved for Poplar Bluff business

A Poplar Bluff company is among 21 in the state approved for a medical marijuana transportation license.

A company called 303 Cannabis, LLC, which lists an address of 303 S. Main St., has received the first medical marijuana license to be issued for the seven-county region, according to information released by the state.

A medical marijuana lab testing application for a Malden location was denied last week.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services expects to release a list of approved medical marijuana cultivation facilities by the end of this week. Additional licenses, including those for manufacturing facilities and dispensaries, are scheduled to be announced in January.

More than 40 applications for medical marijuana business licenses were received for the seven-county area, according to information released by the state in September. It included 18 dispensaries, 12 cultivators, nine infused products manufacturers, one transporter and one testing lab in Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Reynolds, Ripley, Stoddard and Wayne counties.

According to the state’s guidelines related to the medical marijuana transportation process, all vehicles used to transport medical-grade cannabis cannot be marked in any way to indicate the vehicle’s contents. Transport vehicles also must be equipped with lockboxes, video monitoring equipment and GPS tracking technology.

Organizations approved for medical marijuana transportation are responsible for carrying materials from an originating facility to various destinations, such as medical marijuana dispensaries.

Other transportation licenses approved in Southeast Missouri include: 5th Meridian Group Inc., 321 Springwood Lane in Cape Girardeau, and KLN Logistics LLC, 120 Faith Ridge in Jackson.

DHSS also denied three applications for various reasons, such as failure to meet minimum qualifications or falling below the minimum score required for approval, during the application scoring process.

More information about the state’s medical marijuana program, including lists of approved and denied license applicants, can be found on the DHSS website, health.mo.gov.

SEMO News Service reports contributed to this article.