Kentucky residents may now have entry to medical hashish this yr because the state’s Governor Andy Beshear introduced plans to considerably cut back the timeline.
The state grew to become the thirty eighth within the US to legalise medical hashish final yr after the Governor signed Home Invoice 47 into legislation.
Nevertheless, the invoice shouldn’t be attributable to come into impact till January 2025, and it has been criticised as one of many strictest frameworks within the US.
On Thursday, Beshear signed off on Home Invoice 829, which can ‘expedite the timeline for making medical hashish obtainable’ and convey the launch date as much as July 01, 2024.
The passage of the invoice has now seen the Kentucky Medical Hashish Program (KMCP) publish a string of latest rules to assist companies put together.
Enterprise house owners can start making use of for his or her licences from July 01 to August 31, and must pay an utility charge and submit monetary, possession and enterprise data.
Functions shall be authorised by a lottery system, in a transfer the KMCP’s govt director, Sam Flynn, says is designed to make sure ‘hashish enterprise licensing is honest and clear’.
The primary 58 licenses, together with 10 processors and 48 dispensaries, shall be granted in October and shall be issued in all 11 areas.
Every area will initially be granted no less than 4 dispensary licenses, nevertheless, not multiple dispensary could be situated in every county besides Jefferson and Fayette.
