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Cannabis in Kentucky is illegal for recreational use, and legal for medical use under executive order, with full medical legalization statute taking effect in 2025. Non-psychoactive CBD oil is also legal in the state, and Kentucky has a history of cultivating industrial hemp for fiber since 1775.
19th century Kentucky hemp field Soldiers in a Kentucky warehouse guarding seed for the 1943 hemp crop. In the 18th century, John Filson wrote in Kentucke and the Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone (an appendix of his 1784 work The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke) of the quality of Kentucky's land and climate for hemp production. [1]
House Bill 136 in the 2022 session would have created a medical cannabis program. It was passed by the house of representatives 59–34 on March 17, 2022. [1]The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, said on April 7, 2022, that he was considering executive action to permit medical cannabis in his state if House Bill 136 was not approved in the state senate. [2]
The Kentucky Medical Cannabis Program — which regulates the legal cultivation, production, sale and use of medical marijuana products — is set to officially start Jan. 1, 2025.
Advocates say there is potential for the crop to have greater economic benefit and that regulations on CBD and more infrastructure will help that happen.
Kentuckians can purchase and possess medical cannabis under conditions laid out in a 2022 executive order from Gov. Andy Beshear, and beginning in 2025, they’ll be able to obtain medical ...
Spreading harvested hemp in Kentucky, 1898. Hemp in the United States is a legal crop. It was legal in the 18th and 19th centuries, then production was effectively banned in the mid-20th century, and it returned as a legal crop in the 21st century. By 2019, the United States had become the world's third largest producer of hemp, behind China ...
Here’s a deep dive into Kentucky’s new medical marijuana law, including when it goes into effect, who can use it and how to get a cannabis card.