Albeit Kentucky has battled for a very long time while to get any consideration from the General Assembly on the issue of medical cannabis, the reason will have more grounded fortification in 2016. This week, previous Congressman Mike Ward reported the arrangement of Legalize Kentucky Now, a gathering looking to “influence policy, public perception, and elected officials” with an end goal to authorize the crop for medical benefits in Kentucky. The charitable association will endeavor to influence administrators at the session, which began on Tuesday in Frankfort, to quit fooling around with laws that allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients.
“While no one policy solution can solve every problem, legalizing medical marijuana will make a real difference across a range of issues: increased tax dollars, compassionate use by those suffering from illness, reduce the over-reliance on prescription pain narcotics that can lead to addiction and heroin and is ruining our communities, and the social justice effects of decriminalization will benefit Kentuckians of all races and economic classes,” it states on the group’s website.
Ward, who began heavily supporting medical cannabis twenty years ago once the drug helped his brother deal with AIDS, said to the Courier-Journal that legalization in Kentucky “is absolutely something that is going to happen.” The only step that remains is mixing the perfect proposal with the right person of power willing to fight.
Since 2015’s gubernatorial vote, there have been sundry projections that lawmakers in Kentucky would make a massive push in 2016 to attempt to make some sort of medicinal cannabis program. This is due to the fact that before Republican Governor Matt Bevin was voted into office, he said during a debate that since there is “unequivocal medical evidence” that marijuana is beneficial to one’s health, he would allow a bill that would allow the drug to “be prescribed like any other prescription drug.”
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I’m glad to see someone taking a common sense approach to marijuana in our state. I do wonder how much traction these bills will get. Marijuana reform is coming…I’d love to see them take the lead on an issue for once. Just don’t involve Hal Greer, he’s a “Drug Warrior”. I email his office every few months asking him to support reform, and get the token “War on Drugs” rhetoric.