Status
Operational
Law Signed:
2023
QUALIFYING CONDITIONS
- Cancer
- Chronic pain
- Chronic nausea/vomiting
- Epilepsy/seizure disorder
- Multiple sclerosis
- Muscle spasms/spasticity
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Any other medical condition or disease for which the Kentucky Center for Cannabis established in KRS 164.983, or its successor, determines that sufficient scientific data and evidence exists to demonstrate that an individual diagnosed with that condition or disease is likely to receive medical, therapeutic, or palliative benefits from the use of medicinal cannabis
PATIENT POSSESSION LIMITS
- In-state qualified patients are permitted to purchase the amount of medical cannabis specified by the patient’s medical cannabis practitioner, up to a 30-day supply during a 25-day period.
- Flower: 10 day supply limit is 3.75 grams; 30-day supply limit* is 112 grams
- Concentrates: 10 day supply limit is 19.5 grams, 30-day supply limit* is 128 grams
- THC-infused products: 10 day supply limit is 1,300 milligrams; 30-day supply limit* is 3,900 milligrams
- Non-consumable (topical) products will not count toward a qualified patient’s supply limits.
- * A medical cannabis practitioner may recommend an amount of medical cannabis for a 30-day supply that is higher than the above supply limits if the practitioner reasonably believes that the established limits would not provide uninterrupted therapeutic or palliative relief to the qualified patient.
HOME CULTIVATION
No
STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES
Yes
STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES OPERATIONAL
No
DELIVERY
- Yes
CAREGIVERS
Yes, designated caregivers are permitted to purchase the amount of medical cannabis specified by the medical cannabis practitioner for the qualified patient(s) they assist, up to a 30-day supply per each registered qualified patient they assist during a 25-day period.
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF REGISTERED PATIENTS
15,000
EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS FOR QUALIFYING PATIENTS
Nothing in Sections 1 to 30 of this Act shall: (a) Require an employer to permit or accommodate the use, consumption, possession, transfer, display, transportation, distribution, sale, or growing of medicinal cannabis in the workplace.
RECIPROCITY
Yes, visiting qualified patients are permitted to purchase an amount of medical cannabis up to a 10-day supply as specified by the program supply limits during an 8-day period.