The governor of Kentucky is predicting that patients in the state should be able to access medical cannabis in legal dispensaries by the end of 2025.
“The medical marijuana program is moving forward,” Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said at a press briefing on Thursday.
“I think most of our dispensaries now have their home address [and] are set about where they’re going to be, but [for] some of the inspections that have to happen in dispensaries, they have to have product that’s there,” he said. “So I do believe they’ll be operating before the end of the year.”
The governor talked about “challenges” the program’s launch has faced due to how initially passed legalization legislation proposed to launch “the licensing and the operations really all at the same time.” A subsequently enacted bill allowed a licensing lottery to be moved up six months, however.
“Then we could make sure that people applied for and got the licenses,” he said. “Originally, that was going to happen January 1 of this year. Imagine us doing all of those pieces instead of an idea where we could have created the cultivators first and started growing the product, the processors at the same time
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