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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announces that residents will no longer be allowed to bring medical marijuana from other states into Kentucky starting July 1, ending an executive order that has been in place since 2022.
The original order gave Kentuckians with eligible conditions conditional pardons to bring in out-of-state medical marijuana while the state built up its own program. Beshear says the change was always the intended outcome, as Kentucky dispensaries can now supply enough product for all patients in the state.
Beshear, at a Team Kentucky press conference, says dispensaries are now spread across most of the state and that more in-state purchasing will drive demand for additional dispensaries. “If there is a concern, there is one part of eastern Kentucky we’d like to see have a little more access, but we believe this step will actually increase that access, because people who are right now going to another state will purchase in state, so those dispensaries will see that there’s a market that is necessary.”
Patients will need a Kentucky medical marijuana card to purchase cannabis in the state. Beshear says anyone who has not yet obtained one should begin speaking with a doctor now.
Read more at Lex18
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