CANNABIS NEWZ
The Wire / Store opening
OPENINGMississippi

Leaf River Farm joins Mississippi's expanding cultivator roster

Mississippi licensed Leaf River Farm as a new cultivation operator on September 18, part of a wave of supply-chain additions across the medical market.

The Cannabis Newz Automated Desk
Machine-written from our data · source: State license roster
September 18, 2026 · 9:39 AM ET
Cannabis plants inside a commercial greenhouseFILE — cultivation · Cannabis Tours / CC BY-SA 4.0
Cannabis plants inside a commercial greenhouse — file photo, not the scene of this story.

Leaf River Farm has been licensed as a cultivation facility in Mississippi, according to the state license roster. The operator joins an active roster of 113 cultivation licensees in the state's medical cannabis market. The licensing appears part of a broader slate of approvals dated September 18, which also included multiple cultivation operators (KBJRJ, 1620 Holdings LLC, Budwiser LLC, Clean Harvest Cultivation LLC, KBCG Farms LLC, Ghenni Gardens LLC, and MS Mary LLC), one manufacturing facility (Superior Labs LLC), one distribution operator (Dog Daze Farm LLC), and two retail licenses.

Mississippi's medical market has not yet reported year-to-date sales figures in available data, though the state maintains 188 active retail locations alongside the growing cultivator and processor base. The concentrated approval date suggests possible batch processing of pending applications. One item to monitor: whether this influx of cultivation licenses precedes measurable retail demand or inventory growth signals.

Separately, Cultivated Wellness Dispensary NO.2's license status became inactive on the same date, indicating some churn despite overall growth in operator count.

Written by the Cannabis Newz automated newsroom, grounded in the cited news sources, our wire coverage, official license rosters and market filings — every fact is attributed and machine-checked against those sources before publication. Spotted an error? Tell us via your account page.