For the 2022 session of the General Assembly, it appears that a bill to legalize medical marijuana is dead.

The Senate hasn’t brought it up for a vote, though the measure won approval in the House.

Julie Cantwell, an advocate for medical marijuana, says advocates are furious. Cantwell says her son used to have 100 small seizures every day, and now with the help of out-of-state medical marijuana, he has been seizure free for 29 months.

Senate President Robert Stivers says he would like to see more testing before moving forward with the bill.

In a poll from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky says nine in ten adults support legalization, the support is widespread across the commonwealth.

Majority Floor leader Damon Thayer acknowledged the disconnect, and said most of his constituents support medical marijuana, but he does not. He added that if voters didn’t like that, then they could “take it out” on him during the next election.

Thayer does not believe there’s enough support to pass medical marijuana through the Senate.

Supporters of medical marijuana say the Senate should hold a vote anyway.