Industry and Related Work Experience
I am a veteran of the U. S. Army National Guard. I have been fortunate to serve the public as a plumber for al most 30 years, which allowed me to work with-in the Medical Cannabis Industry in various levels and degrees of operations.
Meet Your Consultant
Lee Cordingley
My name is Lee Cordingley. I was born a son of the south on January 9, 1969, in Tompkinsville, KY. My mother’s family are the Scotts, Whites, Andersons…out on 1049, buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, and LDS Cemetery. My grandfather and uncle were big into Farm Bureau. My dad had a local cabinet shop at the same time as two of my uncles were local plumbers in the area for more than 40 years. They taught me to drive a farm tractor and a backhoe before I was 10 years old.
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In 1979, due to my father’s health, we moved to southeastern Idaho where my father was born and raised. I became a plumber’s apprentice in late 1994 for a company from Seattle WA, which gave me the opportunity to work in multiple states where medical cannabis was becoming legal: California 1996, Oregon and Washington in 1998, Colorado 2001. In 1997 I was introduced to cognitive therapy and medical cannabis through Vietnam veterans who suffered from PTSD, cancer, and addiction.
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My career as a plumber afforded me the opportunity to work closely inside the cannabis industry on various levels and capacities. Being a veteran and a multiple generational organic gardener, it eventually got me into cultivating medical cannabis for veterans with PTSD, cancer, and addiction.
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In 2020 I relocated from Colorado back home to Kentucky with custody of my five children so I could have help from my family in raising them.
My hopes as a consultant are to bring my knowledge and experience to help educate KY cannabis businesses and cultivators produce beneficial products for Kentuckians qualifying from medical conditions.