A cannabis-related bill looks to expand access to the Medical Cannabis Program.Louisville legislator Rep. Al Gentry filed House Bill 401, which would add more qualifying conditions to the list. In November 2022, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed executive orders to permit the use of medical cannabis for qualifying patients. The list of what qualified someone included 21 conditions.Then, in 2023, Beshear signed Senate Bill 47 into law, legalizing medical cannabis for Kentuckians beginning Jan. 1, 2025. But Gentry says some of the 21 conditions from the executive order didn’t make it into the final bill.HB 401 adds more conditions to the list. “Well, the hope is eventually, the people that need to have access to this to treat their chronic disease or ailment are able to get access to the health care that they need from this particular product,” Gentry said. “And hopefully we can continue to move in that direction.”These are the current qualifying conditions under the Medical Cannabis Program. ​Any type or form of cancer;Chronic or severe pain;Epilepsy or other intractable seizure disorder; Multiple sclerosis, muscle spasms, or spasticity;Chronic nausea or cyclical vomiting syndrome; orPost-traumatic stress disorder. Another cannabis-related bill also sponsored by Gentry is House Bill 403, which deals with worker compensation.It would prevent a worker from losing benefits if they have Delta-9 THC in their system.”When it gets into your body, a portion of it gets stored in fatty tissue cells,” he said. “So you can test positive for this particular substance and not be impaired and the way workers’ compensation law is written, is if you have illegal substances, which could include, or does include Delta-9 THC, then it is automatically assumed that it caused the accident.”Both bills have been assigned to the House Committee on Committees.