For people living with post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain or cancer in Kentucky, a newly legal treatment is almost here. Nine months after medical marijuana officially became legal in the Commonwealth, the state believes the first harvest should be ready in the coming weeks.
"So we're moving and we're finally getting to a point where we're, these patients are going to receive this medication sooner than later," said Cannon Armstrong, executive director of Kentucky's Office of Medical Cannabis.
Armstrong took over leading the program earlier this year, and says two of the state's 16 cultivators are up and running. One of those being Armory Kentucky in Mayfield. The tier two site brought in over 2,000 plants earlier this summer.
"If everything goes according to plan for them, I think that they'll have medical cannabis that will be ready to harvest and be put on the shelf, you know, by October," Armstrong said. He added that the first products will probably be sold at The Post, a dispensary in Beaver Dam, about a 40-minute drive south of Owensboro.
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