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\nMedical marijuana is now legal in Kentucky, with sales beginning in 2025.<\/p>\n
\nMedical marijuana is now legal in Kentucky, with sales beginning in 2025.<\/p>\n
Governor Andy Beshear signed the bill into law Friday, but the law differs from the smaller program created by Beshear\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n
Access to the drug is the biggest difference. Right now, patients can only buy medical marijuana out of state. This law changes that.<\/p>\n
Darby Cook, owner of Kentucky Cannabis Clinic, connects patients to state licensed doctors who will recommend marijuana. The number of qualifying medical conditions in the law is fewer than Beshear\u2019s executive order. But Cook said it is a good start.<\/p>\n
She said the bill does include chronic pain, and that is one of the most common reasons people are trying to use medical marijuana.<\/p>\n
The state now needs to implement the law. Key sponsor State Representative Jason Nemes, a republican from Louisville, said that is why the law doesn\u2019t start until 2025.<\/p>\n
Qualified patients will be allowed to have a 30 day supply in their home, and will be allowed to carry a 10 day supply with them. Rules around licenses will need to be hashed out over the next year and a half.<\/p>\n
The law does not limit the number of cultivators and dispensaries, but we don\u2019t know yet how difficult the state will make it for businesses to get those licenses. Cook said Kentucky has a lot of examples to look at with 30 plus other states that have implemented medical use of marijuana.<\/p>\n
Kentucky will not allow medical marijuana patients to smoke the drug. Lawmakers believed that was a step too close to allowing recreational use.
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