Upcoming Events for Patients
The Office of Medical Cannabis is hosting a series of webinars for how potential patients and caregivers can become medical cannabis cardholders in 2025. You can view and sign up for the webinars below. Please view the Patients & Caregivers page of our website for more information.
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Wednesday, January 15th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, February 12th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, March 12th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, April 16th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, May 14th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, June 18th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, July 16th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, August 13th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, September 17th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, October 15th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, November 12th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
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Wednesday, December 17th | 12pm-1pm | Click here to register.
Upcoming Events for Practitioners
The Office of Medical Cannabis is hosting a series of webinars for licensed Kentucky physicians and APRNs on how to become authorized and registered to provide qualified patients with written certifications for medical cannabis. You can see the details here.
Business Licensing Update
The lottery for the following dispensary regions will be held on December 16, 2024: Bluegrass and Kentuckiana. Additionally, lotteries will be held for two (2) dispensary licenses in Fayette County (in the Bluegrass region) and two (2) dispensary licenses in Jefferson County (in the Kentuckiana region).
The lottery for Cultivator Tier I, Cultivator Tier II, Cultivator Tier III, and Processor licenses was held on Monday,
October 28, 2024.
The lottery for the following dispensary regions was held on November 25, 2024: Northeast, South Central, Cumberland, Mountain, Pennyrile, West Kentucky, Lincoln Trail, Northern Kentucky, and Green River.
You can view cannabis business licensees
here.
Overview
As part of his effort to reduce Kentuckians' reliance on addictive opioids and provide them with relief from severe and chronic pain, Gov. Andy Beshear signed Senate Bill 47 on March 31, 2023, which legalizes medical cannabis in the commonwealth effective Jan. 1, 2025.
The Office of Medical Cannabis in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is charged under KRS Chapter 218B with implementing and administering Kentucky's Medical Cannabis Program.
As of April 18, 2024, the Program has filed 17 regulations establishing the processes and procedures for medical cannabis businesses and registered cardholders.
Regulations regarding cannabis businesses establish how cultivators, processors, producers, safety compliance facilities, and dispensaries will apply, become licensed, and operate in the Commonwealth. Regulations regarding patients, designated caregivers, and practitioners establish the procedures to receive a written certification and a medical cannabis card, supply limits, and procedures to publish a list of varieties of medical cannabis.
You can read all of the filed regulations
here.
We thank you for your interest and look forward to sharing more information as the Office of Medical Cannabis implements this Program.