How long will patients have to wait for medical marijuana in Kentucky?

A group of Kentucky hemp farmers, prepared to meet the state's medical marijuana demand, feel they were burned by the state.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Michael Adair thought his greenhouse in central Kentucky would be a perfect source for the state's brand new medical marijuana business.

The co-founder of Kentucky Farmed, Adair applied to grow medical marijuana on his farm in Paris ahead of the state's lotteries, which chose the cultivators, processors dispensaries that could operate starting Jan. 1.

But Adair wasn't chosen and, in the weeks leading up to the legalization, he and several other Kentucky hemp farmers shared concerns about how the state's medical marijuana lottery process played out and how patients will be impacted.

"It hasn't been fair and equitable like they say it has," Adair said.

Adair is just one of many Kentucky hemp farmers who said they were told they'd have priority in Kentucky's medical marijuana rollout. Instead, they said they were left feeling like they got burned by the state.

"I just feel like Kentucky sold out to the highest bidder," said Nic Johnson of Black Barn Farms in Wilmore.

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