Kentucky’s Democratic governor is calling out a top GOP lawmaker for having a “complete lack of humanity” after he suggested that state law enforcement officials should prosecute people who act in accordance with a recent executive order to expand medical cannabis access.
Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed the order last week to broaden the list of health conditions that make patients eligible to legally obtain medical cannabis.
Days later, House Majority Whip Jason Nemes (R) asked Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) to ensure that state agencies “not cooperate” with the governor’s marijuana directive, which he called “unlawful.”
“Any organization, any licensee, that participates in this unlawful expansion should be prosecuted,” Nemes said during a legislative committee hearing. “This is not the way forward.”
On Thursday, Beshear said signing the cannabis order “was the right thing to do, and it was needed, because in the law they wrote in the name of some medical conditions, but then they wrote some symptoms like pain and nausea, all of which clearly are symptoms” of the specifically named conditions.
After the legislature declined to take him up on a suggestion to expand the qualifying condition list this session, Beshear used his authority to make
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