The company that will soon start running Mineral County’s first medical cannabis cultivation facility says its operation will bring more jobs to the area, and won’t do anything to diminish residents’ safety.
Mountaineer Integrated Care was named by West Virginia’s Office of Medical Cannabis Friday afternoon as one of the first 10 companies awarded a permit to start growing the plant for medicinal use and processing within the state. It announced its intent to purchase property in the Fort Ashby Business & Technology Park in February.
While no licenses for processing have been awarded, Patrick Nightingale, Mountaineer’s director of patient and community outreach, said Wednesday that the company has applied for one, and based on their recent success are “cautiously optimistic” that they’ll receive that permit as well.
Nightingale said the processing licenses will be the next awarded.
“The cultivation license is a very difficult one to win, and we feel really confident with our application obviously since we won that license,” Nightingale said. “With a little bit of luck, we’ll be bringing in not only cultivation opportunities to Fort Ashby and Mineral County, but also processing employment opportunities.”
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