Kentucky Senate Passes Historic Medical Marijuana Bill for the First Time
The Kentucky Senate has for the first time ever passed a bill that would make medical marijuana legal.
Senate Bill 47 was passed by a vote of 26 to 11 on Thursday night. If the House also reads it for the first time Thursday night, they can pass it after the break for vetoes.
With this bill, medical marijuana would be legal in Kentucky, but it would be closely controlled.
The bill would make medical marijuana legal in the state, but there aren’t a lot of ways to qualify.
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Here Are Some of Them
- Any kind or form of cancer, no matter what stage it is in.
- Pain that is constant, severe, hard to treat, or weakening.
- Epilepsy or any other seizure disorder that is hard to treat.
- MS, muscle spasms, or spasticity.
- Other common medical treatments haven’t worked for people with a syndrome that causes them to feel sick all the time or throw up in cycles.
PTSD.
A doctor would have to say that a patient has any of these conditions before the patient could get a permit to have medical marijuana.
If Gov. Beshear approves it, it wouldn’t be available until 2025, so the state could have time to figure out how to regulate it.
Also in Sb 47 Are
- The rules for how a dispensary should be set up.
- The steps you need to take to get a business license.
- Getting the product so it can be sold.
- Producers and stores that sell marijuana have to pay taxes.
- All medical marijuana sold in the Commonwealth must be grown in Kentucky, according to this rule.
