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Cannabis in Kentucky concerns the illegality for all purposes of the drug cannabis in Kentucky, United States.

2014 legalization of CBD trials

In April 2014, Governor Steve Beshear signed a law permitting patients to use non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD) derivatives with a physician's recommendation, under clinical trials at the University of Kentucky in the treatment of epilepsy, but the law did not include provisions to legally produce or sell CBD.[1]

2015 failed attempt to legalize medical cannabis

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 Institute 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 Shemelya stated: "The ultimate end game for proponents of – and I don't even like to call it medical marijuana – the proponents of marijuana as medicine is not to sanction marijuana as medicine but the outright legalization of recreational use of marijuana."[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Lexington, KY local and state news by the Lexington Herald-Leader". Kentucky.com. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
  2. ^ "Kentucky Baptists Take Credit for Failure of Medical Marijuana Bills". WKMS. 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
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