Albemarle County officials have given their support to Holistic Virginia, a company that wants to operate a medical cannabis facility on Avon Street Extended.
Both the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and Economic Development Authority sent letters of support to a committee with the Virginia Board of Pharmacy for an application for Holistic Virginia LLC to operate a pharmaceutical processing facility in Albemarle.
The state is only issuing one permit per Health Service Area. A permit for the Health Service Area I, which includes Albemarle, was conditionally approved for a facility in Staunton, but the Virginia Board of Pharmacy in June denied a request for an extension. A request for applications for a new pharmaceutical processor for the area was issued in September.
Pharmaceutical processors are authorized to cultivate cannabis plants intended only for producing cannabis oil. Currently, only board-registered patients can purchase the products.
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