KY gov blasts GOP leader over medical cannabis prosecution comments: ‘Complete lack of humanity’

Beshear, GOP lawmaker spar over medical cannabis expansion.

By: Sarah Ladd

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: June 11, 2026

Words: 707

Last Updated: 7 hours, 58 minutes ago

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A Republican leader who said agencies cooperating with an “unlawful expansion” of qualifying conditions for medical cannabis should be prosecuted reached “a new record low” with the comments, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday.

This came days after Kentucky House Majority Whip Jason Nemes asked Attorney General Russell Coleman to help ensure agencies “not cooperate” with Beshear’s expansion of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana prescriptions, which he did via executive order in early …

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