As a retailer of Kentucky Cannabis, who has taken the risk and responsibility to sell cannabis products in accordance with our state and federal laws, I want to thank Sen. Mitch McConnell for his main work in reviving the American Cannabis industry. His leadership 2014 and 2018 The Farm Farm accounts gave retailers such as US hope and opportunities during uncertainty. However, recently, the McConnell Courier Journal OP-ED, calling for re-changing popular cannabis products, is a great promise, and more importantly, Kentucky’s right to manage its affairs.
2023 The Kentucky General Assembly adopted one of the most comprehensive laws in the country in the country to regulate cannabinoids. This was not done in a hurry or in a vacuum. It was created in cooperation with law enforcement, health officials, regulatory authorities and retailers themselves and processors McConnell federal laws to “protect”.
The result is a strong, implemented system with clear rules to limit the sales rules for 21 years of age and older, as well as increasing the requirements of independent laboratories tests, child -resistant packaging and retail licensing and inspections. It was not a gap. It was Kentucky’s leadership, which is a government closest to people, doing what Washington does not do too often: solve the problem pragmatically.
Kentucky’s hemp retailers protect children
Kentucky retailers do not ignore the safety of our children. We turn to this through state power and supervision adapted to our communities. In Washington, DC, now disregards these efforts associated with excessive federal insurance, they send a worrying message that cannot be entrusted to managing their markets, protecting their children or regulating their industries. If the goal is to fill in consumer safety gaps, let the Kentucky model be a project, not the damage to the hostage.
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Let’s be very clear, no retailers in Kentucky defend adult products for children. We defend the possibilities of retailers to act on a clear, regulated and state -defined market, which is determined by the demand for adults.
We do not need federal insurance for any hemp product
The proposed McConnell federal restrictions would make more to eliminate the legitimate livelihood, such as ours than protecting children. As the story has proven, this regulated underworld is only harder to control. That is why we believe in regulation, not federal insurance and why the Kentucky’s attitude deserves support, not exception.
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Senior McConnell, Kentucky has already done what Washington is just trying to find out. We behaved. We passed the law. We did it. We did it right. For our retailers, farmers, processors, our rural economies and children, we ask to respect our state’s right to manage this problem. There is no need to ban any hemp product, especially those that actually help so many people. Whether these are veterans with PTSS, or cancer cancer or epilepsy, these products help and should remain available.
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Dee Dee Taylor, 502 cannabis owner. 2025 June 9th
Dee Dee Taylor is the president of the Kentucky Cannabis Association and the owner of 502 Cannabis Health Center.
This article initially appeared at the Louisville Courier Journal: McConnell is wrong. Kentukis can protect children from cannabis opinion