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US (KY): MMJ dispensaries to be fully stocked by next month, says official
Kentucky’s top medical marijuana regulator said he expects that dispensary shelves will be stocked with products ready for sale to patients by next month. Two of the state’s 16 medical cannabis cultivators are now operational, according to Cannon Armstrong, executive director of Kentucky’s Office of Medical Cannabis (OMC).
“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,” he told Spectrum News 1. “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.” Armstrong predicted that the first sales will likely occur at a dispensary in Beaver Dam called The Post.
“I think you’re going to see the first products out there based upon just how it’s shaken out,” he said. “You know, someone may step up their timeline and may get out there before that or get product from there and place it somewhere else in the state.”
As of now, OMC has approved more than 19,000 patients certifications, Armstrong said. He added that medical cannabis supplies should be relatively scarce as the market first launches, and said that as a result initial prices will be higher than they eventually will be.
