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The Kentucky Medical Cannabis Program — which regulates the legal cultivation, production, sale and use of medical marijuana products — is set to officially start Jan. 1, 2025.. But before ...
Medical marijuana cardholders in Kentucky will be able to use the products starting Jan. 1, 2025, and the program’s executive director says dispensaries should be a relatively short drive away ...
In January 2023, an executive order signed by Gov. Andy Beshear began allowing qualifying Kentuckians with chronic conditions to use medical marijuana. And by 2025, Kentucky’s new medical ...
Although Trump indicated during his 2016 presidential campaign that he favored leaving the issue of legalization of marijuana to the states, his administration subsequently upheld the federal prohibition of cannabis, and Trump's 2021 fiscal budget proposal included removing protections for state medical marijuana laws. [1]
Kentucky was also one of eleven states to have twice voted for Bill Clinton but against his wife Hillary in 2016. Trump's victory in Kentucky made it his fifth-strongest state in the 2016 election after West Virginia , Wyoming , Oklahoma , and North Dakota . [ 4 ]
House Bill 136 in the 2022 session would have created a medical cannabis program. It was passed by the house of representatives 59–34 on March 17, 2022. [1]The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, said on April 7, 2022, that he was considering executive action to permit medical cannabis in his state if House Bill 136 was not approved in the state senate. [2]
Polling suggests 90% of Kentucky adults support legalizing marijuana for medicinal use, but state lawmakers haven’t budged.
In 2015, House Bill 3 and Senate Bill 40 both proposed establishing a medical cannabis framework in Kentucky; both failed to pass out of committee. The anti-cannabis National Marijuana Initiative and the Kentucky Baptist Convention took credit for the defeat of the bills, and vowed to oppose medical cannabis bills in 2016. NMI coordinator Ed ...