medical marijuana

Kentuckians with chronic pain are finding it harder to afford medical cannabis. On July 1, an executive order was lifted that gave conditional pardons to patients traveling out-of-state to purchase the drug. They're now finding a large cost disparity between Kentucky and its neighbors.

Kentuckians with medical cannabis cards are no longer protected when purchasing products out of state, thanks to a July 1 rule change.

The Bluegrass CannaCare dispensary in Florence soft-launched and opened its doors for the first time on Friday, just over a year after it became legal to sell and purchase medical cannabis in Kentucky.

The slow rollout of medical marijuana products is being felt in Northern Kentucky.

Bluegrass Cannacare, a dispensary in Florence, is eyeing a November opening, or whenever cannabis products grown in Kentucky become available to retailers.

We discuss under what circumstances patients under 18 may be prescribed medial cannabis.

This continues the trend from the first license lottery of the Kentucky Office of Medical Cannabis in October, in which a majority of cultivator and processor license winners had ties to out-of-state marijuana companies.

Four cannabis businesses that applied to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Northern Kentucky have been selected by the state to receive the first licenses to operate in 2025.

In total, 12 Northern Kentucky cities and three counties approved votes to allow medical sales in 2025, making them potential landing spots for some of Kentucky's first-ever medical marijuana dispensaries.

Four dispensaries will be allowed to operate in each region and 395 marijuana businesses have applied to receive one of those four licenses in the Northern Kentucky region encompassing nine counties.