Beginning in 2025, medical marijuana can be legally sold, grown and consumed in Kentucky, the result of a law passed by the General Assembly this year. Last week, Governor Beshear announced a new website that provides updates on the plan. Bill Polyniak, the co-owner of the Kentucky Cannabis Company and its Bluegrass Hemp Oil retail stores, said he’s concerned about the lack of details for would-be growers.
“They're good at giving talking points, like a marketing like a brochure, but when you get to the meat and potatoes of it, we just don't -- as you know, we've got a decade here cultivating medical products in Kentucky, and we just don't see how they're going to do it.”
The Kentucky Cannabis Company was one of six to take part in a pilot program that allowed it to produce and sell hemp and its products starting in 2014. Polyniak said with medical marijuana set to hit the market in January 2025, he’s concerned the state will follow the path it did with hemp and the hemp-related products for sale at many places.
“Everybody knows that nobody's ever died from ingesting cannabis, except when you get into these synthetics and these isolates. No, you know, you're talking spice, K2, Delta 8, HHC, they just go on and on.”
The Kentucky Cannabis Company refines its products in Midway and has a retail store there and in Lexington.
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