The Bluegrass State could be on its way to having medical marijuana be legal next year.
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is in support of bringing medical cannabis to the state and has said she wants to legalize it by 2018.
Grimes stated, “2018 is and must be the year when Kentucky finally steps up on medical marijuana. We have to get this done to help Kentuckians who are hurting.”
State Rep. John Sims, D- Flemingsburg, who will be co-chairing a task force working under Grimes has also said, “Kentucky is getting left behind on this issue. Already 29 states and the District of Columbia have enacted medical marijuana legislation to help their people,” Sims said in the announcement. “The research is done. The studies have been conducted. It works, and it’s time we end our idling and start having conversations to bring medical marijuana to the Commonwealth.”
The task force will be studying and proposing potential implementation and regulation processes.
