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A partir del 1 de julio de 2026, los kentuckianos ya no podrán traer marihuana medicinal de otros estados, sino que deberán solicitar una tarjeta de cannabis medicinal de Kentucky, según anunció el gobernador Andy Beshear al terminar su orden ejecutiva de 2022 que permitía esto condicionalmente. Kentucky cuenta actualmente con 33 negocios de marihuana medicinal aprobados, más de 24,000 residentes con tarjetas de cannabis medicinal aprobadas y casi 500 profesionales registrados para emitir certificaciones, además de 15 condiciones médicas adicionales que califican para el acceso al cannabis medicinal.
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Kentuckians will no longer be allowed to bring medical marijuana from other states into Kentucky, but will instead need to apply for a Kentucky medical cannabis card.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced on June 11 at his weekly news conference that he was ending his 2022 executive order providing conditional pardons to Kentuckians suffering from eligible conditions who purchased medical cannabis out of state. The order will end on July 1.
“This step was taken before I signed legislation legalizing medical cannabis in Kentucky in 2023,” Beshear said. “Now that medical cannabis is readily available, we’re going to end the conditional pardon starting on July 1 of this year . . . because we now know that there is enough and we can tell you what’s in each and every one of those products.”
Beshear said 33 medical marijuana businesses are now approved to operate in Kentucky, including 11 cultivators, two safety compliance facilities, three processors and 17 dispensaries. Further, he said more than 24,000 Kentuckians have been approved for medical cannabis cards, and nearly 500 practitioners are registered to issue certifications.
Beshear also pointed to an executive order he’d signed earlier this month to “clarify” that the state law includes 15 additional qualifying conditions, including terminal illness, sickle cell anemia, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, HIV, AIDS, Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophy, cachexia or wasting syndrome, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, neuropathies, severe arthritis, fibromyalgia and glaucoma.
Kentucky’s original law allows access to medical marijuana for certain medical conditions, including any type or form of cancer, severe or chronic pain, epilepsy or other intractable seizure disorder, multiple sclerosis, muscle spasms or spasticity, chronic nausea or cyclical vomiting syndrome and PTSD.
The Beshear administration asked the General Assembly to add 16 medical conditions to the state’s medical cannabis program during the 2026 regular session, but they did not act on this request.
At the Tuesday, June 9 Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary meeting, Kentucky House Majority Whip Jason Nemes, R-Middletown, called the executive order an “unlawful expansion” of the current law and urged Attorney General Russell Coleman to make sure organizations and licensees that participate in this expansion are prosecuted.
At his weekly press conference, Beshear did not name Nemes, but said, “I was really surprised to see an attack from one lawmaker who called on the Attorney General to prosecute people dying of a terminal illness for securing medical cannabis. I mean, that’s a complete lack of humanity.”
In response to Beshear’s comments, Nemes told Sarah Ladd with the Kentucky Lantern that they were “unfair.”
“I said, licensee. I’m not talking about a sick person,” he told Ladd. “For six years, I’ve put everything I had in that bill and got it passed.”
He added that he wants to see conditions expanded in the future, but not before the program is fully operational, Ladd reports.
