Kentucky

The Kentucky Senate will not vote on the state’s House-approved medical cannabis legislation because, according to Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer (R), there are “not enough votes” to pass the bill.

Kentucky lawmakers are seeking to ban delta-8 THC products in the state; the move is being contested by the Kentucky Hemp Association.

Kentucky’s GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted 59-64 to pass a bill giving patients with certain severe illnesses access to a state medical cannabis program.

The Kentucky House Judiciary Committee passed a medical cannabis bill sponsored and supported by the state’s Republican lawmakers.

Kentucky Democratic lawmakers filed a bill to legalize adult-use cannabis in the state and automatically expunge cannabis-related misdemeanor charges.

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers (R) hasn’t definitively stated whether he would allow a medical cannabis bill to be considered by the state Senate.

Kentucky state Rep. Nima Kulkarni (D) pre-filed bills to decriminalize cannabis possession and to allow ballot questions discussing legalization to be put to voters.

Kentucky-based Victory Hemp Foods, a B2B food ingredient processing company, has raised about $4.5 million to expand its production capacity.

The Kentucky Hemp Association and other hemp businesses in the state are suing to stop crackdowns on hemp businesses selling Delta-8 THC.

Kentucky state Rep. Rachel Roberts has filed a bill that would legalize cannabis use and cultivation and expunge low-level cannabis crimes.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters at an event in Kentucky that he thinks people should be wearing hemp-based face masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Sullivan University in Louisville, Kentucky has announced a new Introduction to Cannabis Studies online course for the coming semester.

Louisville, Kentucky city officials have permanently banned the use of no-knock police raids. The ordinance is called “Breonna’s Law,” named after 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police in her home during a no-knock narcotics raid.

A judge has approved the $77 million bankruptcy sale of GenCanna Global USA Inc., a Kentucky hemp processing company, to MGG GenCanna Acquisition Group.

Kentucky lawmakers have advanced two pieces of hemp legislation: one would establish CBD label requirements and the other would legalize smokeable hemp products.

Kentucky hemp processing company Atalo Holdings has filed for bankruptcy after “a failed capital commitment, which left the company unable to pay its creditors.”

Kentucky state Sen. Whitney Westerfield, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would not give a pending medical cannabis bill its hearing until he is “OK with it.”

GenCanna Global USA Inc., an embattled Kentucky hemp processor, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but the company will continue operations during this process.

According to a recent poll, 9 out of 10 people living in Kentucky support the legalization of medical cannabis.

The Maysville Community and Technical College in Kentucky is set to offer a hemp production course starting this coming spring.

A Kentucky hemp farm is suing an Oregon hemp seed supplier over $44 million in lost profits after the Oregon firm allegedly failed to provide feminized seeds during a cross-country, 6-million hemp seed deal.

Kentucky hemp applications are set to open in about a month; interested farmers will have until March 15, 2020, to submit applications.

A new hemp facility in Murray, Kentucky demonstrates the newly legal crop’s ability to outpace and replace oak trees as a lumber source.

Citing racial discrimination issues, police and prosecutors in Jefferson County, Kentucky will no longer pursue low-level cannabis possession crimes if it’s the only or primary charge.