Governor says he could support medical marijuana bill

Kentucky Press News Service

Speaking in Stanford Tuesday, Gov.Matt Bevin said he could support a medical marijuana bill depending on the measure’s language.

Bevin told the audience that his teen-age nephew died of cancer and would have benefitted from medical marijuana’s pain relief properties.

His nephew was 14 and died in 2016.

Bevin said that in order for him to support such legislation it must not be enacted by the General Assembly solely to send more revenue to the state’s coffers.

Two medical marijuana bills have been introduced in the legislature.