Advocates for marijuana reform endured a series of key losses during Tuesday’s election, with legalization proposals defeated in three states. But in Kentucky, voters in more than 100 counties and cities sent a different message, approving local ordinances to allow medical cannabis businesses to operate in their jurisdictions.
After Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed a medical marijuana legalization bill into law last year, numerous cities and counties have taken up measures on whether to allow banning cannabis businesses in their jurisdictions.
On Tuesday, voters in another 53 counties and 53 cities got the chance to make that decision—and all 106 measures passed, in red and blue jurisdictions alike with more than 340,000 votes total in favor as of Wednesday morning.
“The fact that the marijuana went undefeated 106 to zero in every region of Kentucky in deep red Trump counties shows just how powerful this issue is across the board,” Jim Higdon, co-founder of the Kentucky-based company Cornbread Hemp, told Marijuana Moment.
The latest ordinances add to the more than 40 cities that already approved allowing marijuana businesses. Only 20 have passed resolutions to ban the cannabis industry from working in their area, Kentucky Public Radio reported.
With the medical
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