West Virginia Marijuana Business Licenses
Status: In West Virginia, qualified registered medical marijuana patients may be in possession of marijuana, and state licensed businesses may grow, process, transport, and dispense marijuana.
CBD Program | Medical Program | Recreational Program | Are Applications Open? |
Legal | Legal | Not legal | closed |
__________
Learn Now
__________
DOWNLOAD NOW
__________
View Plans
Number of West Virginia Marijuana Business Licenses Licenses Available
Dispensaries | Cultivation | Manufacturing/Processing | Transportation |
100 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
You can read the full text of the West Virginia Marijuana Business Licenses law at: West Virginia Department of Health
West Virginia Medical Marijuana Grower License Guidelines
- Apply for a permit with the Department before growing marijuana.
- The state shall award up to 10 grower permits and up to 2 locations per permit.
- There will be a nonrefundable $5,000 application fee and a $50,000 registration fee required during the submission of the application but will be refunded if permit is not awarded.
- No more than 1 grower’s permit shall be issued to 1 person.
- A person who holds a grower’s permit may also hold a processor’s permit and a dispensary permit.
- Growing facility must meet the same municipal zoning and land use requirements as other manufacturing, processing and production facilities that are located in the same zoning district.
RECOMMENDED WEST VIRGINIA MARIJUANA BUSINESS PLANS FOR GROWERS APPLICATION:
- Marijuana Business Plan Package
- Cultivation Plan Template
- Environmental Plan Template
- Financial Plan Template
- Fire Safety Plan Template
- Inventory Control Plan Template
- Product Safety Plan Template
- Security Plan Template
- Staffing Plan Template
- Suitability of Proposed Facility Plan Template
- Transportation Plan Template
West Virginia Medical Marijuana Processor License Guidelines
- Apply for a permit with the Department before processing marijuana.
- The state shall award up to 10 processor permits.
- There will be a nonrefundable $5,000 application fee and a $50,000 registration fee required during the submission of the application but will be refunded if permit is not awarded.
- No more than 1 processor’s permit shall be issued to 1 person.
- A person who holds a processor’s permit may also hold a grower’s permit and a dispensary permit.
- Processing facility must meet the same municipal zoning and land use requirements as other manufacturing, processing and production facilities that are located in the same zoning district.
RECOMMENDED WEST VIRGINIA MARIJUANA BUSINESS PLANS FOR PROCESSORS APPLICATION:
West Virginia Medical Marijuana Dispensary License Guidelines
- Apply for a permit with the Department before dispensing marijuana.
- The state shall award up to 100 dispensary permits.
- No more than 10 dispensary permits shall be issued to 1 person.
- A person who holds a dispensary permit may hold a grower or processor permit.
- There will be a nonrefundable $2,5000 application fee and a $10,000 registration fee for each location required during the submission of the application but will be refunded if permit is not awarded.
- Dispensary facility must meet the same municipal zoning and land use requirements as other commercial facilities that are located in the same zoning district.
RECOMMENDED WEST VIRGINIA MARIJUANA BUSINESS PLANS FOR DISPENSARY APPLICATION
The History of West Virginia Marijuana Business Licenses Marijuana
After a special legislative session, Senate Bill 1037 was signed into law on May 29, 2019. The bill makes the following changes to West Virginia’s medical cannabis program:
- Increases the number of available dispensary permits from 30 to 100. Additionally, an applicant can have a permit for up to 10 dispensaries.
- Allows vertical integration of medical cannabis organizations (applicants may be a grower, processor, and dispensary).
- Moves the tax on medical cannabis from growers and processors to dispensaries. Dispensaries are subject to a privilege tax of 10% on gross receipts from the sale of medical cannabis to a patient or caregiver.
- Dispensaries are explicitly exempt from any kind of sales or use tax, including any kind of special district excise tax, or any county or municipal sales tax.
- Removes the requirement that physicians have to care for a patient for at least 6 months or otherwise determine that opiate therapy would be ineffective prior to issuing a certification for medical cannabis.
- Removes the requirement that a pharmacist/physician be present at dispensaries when dispensing medical cannabis.
- Disbands medical cannabis “regions” throughout the state. Permits will be awarded to medical cannabis organizations based on a scoring rubric as outlined in the Act and crafted by the Office of Medical Cannabis.
- Imposes in-state residency requirements for permit holders
- Creates a pre-registration process for patients who wish to participate in the medical program
In July 2019, Allison Adler, director of communications for the West Virginia Department of Health, confirmed it may take the state up to three years before the state’s medical cannabis program is launched. Adler wrote in an email to MJBizDaily that the “primary cause” behind the projected two- to three-year delay is concern about the ability of medical marijuana companies to secure banking services. Although the banking issue was addressed in recent legislation, the entire process of selecting financial institutions, the implementation of program rules and regulations, as well as registering patients and licensing businesses will take some time.
The Office of Medical Cannabis accepted permit applications for medical cannabis growers, processors, dispensaries, and laboratories December 19, 2019, through February 18, 2020.
Qualifying Medical Conditions: Cancer, HIV/AIDS, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord damage, epilepsy, neuropathies, Huntington’s disease, Crohn’s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, intractable seizures, sickle cell anemia, or “severe chronic or intractable pain in which conventional therapeutic intervention and opiate therapy is contraindicated or has proved ineffective as determined as part of continuing care.”