LOUISVILLE, KY — Kentucky Senator Perry Clark plans to pre-file a bill for the 2014 legislative session to legalize medical marijuana in the state, and members of the Health and Welfare committee will hold a public hearing on the measure August 21.
The bill is expected to be formally introduced in January when the full legislature reconvenes for the 60-day 2014 legislative session.
Senator Clark (D-Louisville) filed similar legislation in 2012 and 2013, but the bills failed died in committees without ever receiving a hearing.
The bills were both titled the “Gatewood Galbraith Memorial Medical Marijuana Act,” named after the late marijuana advocate Gatewood Galbraith.
The two previous bills would have reclassify cannabis as a Schedule II substance available for medical treatment under a doctor’s direction, and would have allowed patients to possess up to 5 ounces of marijuana or cultivate up to five plants for their own medicinal use.
The bills also stipulated that any plants a patient is growing can not be taxed under state law.
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