FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Medical marijuana advocates are applauding Governor Beshear’s executive action that will make the substance legal to treat people who meet a limited number of criteria within the Commonwealth starting in the new year.

The substance would only be legal in small quantities and people would still need to travel outside the state to legally purchase medical marijuana.

Kentucky “CBD Farmacy” owner Robert Mathaney thinks of all marijuana as medical marijuana.

“What I’ve seen this stuff do is beyond anything I could tell you,” Mathaney said. “Personally in my life, it’s helped with PTSD, it’s helped with insanely bad social anxiety”

Cannabis-related laws are the only ones Mathaney has broken he said. That’s because, up until this point, it’s been illegal to possess marijuana within the state.

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