A marijuana cultivation center will be coming to Shelby County. The State of Illinois along with the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) announced that Shelby County Community Services in Shelbyville is approved to grow cannabis for adult use. This brings the number of cultivation centers in Illinois to 16. The cultivation centers will sell the product to the dispensaries who will then distribute it.
Jeff Cox, Bureau Chief of Medicinal Plants for the IDOA says that this will allow freedom for these licenses to move from medicinal to recreational cannabis.
Adult-use cannabis license applications for craft growers, infusers and transporters will be available through the IDOA beginning on January 7th, 2020 with an application deadline for March 15, 2020. Cox explains what craft growers are.
Cox also explained what infusers and transporters are as well.
Cannabis will be legal in Illinois on January 1st, 2020.
