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Kentucky doctor who can prescribe medical cannabis starting in January discusses program

Dr. Kimberly Case is a family practitioner who'll be able to prescribe medical marijuana to qualifying patients in January.
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Dr. Kimberly Case is a family practitioner who'll be able to prescribe medical marijuana to qualifying patients in January.

Kentucky’s medical marijuana program is set to begin in January, when eligible doctors will be able to prescribe it to patients with state permission. Dr. Kimberly Case is a family practitioner who works at hospitals in Frankfort, Danville and Louisville.

“Practicing as a hospitalist, I run into patients often, who are using it sort of off label, on the downlow. And a lot of times those patients are people with those conditions.”

Case said some of those patients use Marinol, a manufactured form of cannabis.

“My whole plan with regard to all of this was sort of to see what the interest was to begin with, and then figure out whether I have enough interest in patients looking into it, and then I would try to arrange for an outpatient office that I could use as needed.”

Among the conditions making patients eligible for medical marijuana are chronic pain, PTSD, cancer, chronic nausea and several others.

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John McGary is a Lexington native and Navy veteran with three decades of radio, television and newspaper experience.
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