Police officers, firefighters and paramedics.

And one northern Kentucky town won't be allowed to use medical marijuana under.

The city's new rules.

Wilder, Kentucky, in Campbell County, is part of the northern Kentucky metropolitan area along the Ohio River.

The Wilder City Council voted this week to prohibit public.

Safety and health workers from using medical cannabis.

In our Reporter's Notebook segment.

I talked with a journalist in the region about what it means.

And what could come next.

Yes, Renee.

On Monday, the city of Wilder, they essentially passed and a resolution that would bar people who work in health and safety positions at the city from being able to consume medical cannabis, do anything really with medical cannabis.

Now, a health and safety worker is defined at least by the city, as someone who is a police officer, a firefighter or a paramedic.

It does not include administrative positions.

It doesn't include anybody who might work in the city's recreation or public works department.

So it's really just those kind of positions that have really critical time sensitive types of roles that people rely on.

They decided to go ahead and ban those.

Obviously.

A lot of other cities might start to take this type of position.

But as far as I know, Wilder is the first one in northern Kentucky.

At least that I've covered that has this type of law.

Right.

And so are these professionals that you've mentioned.

They're already subjected to drug testing.

Right.

Is that one of the rationales for why they would not be able to consume medical cannabis?

That's right.

They are already governed by the rules of the City of Wilder regarding drug testing and other drug policies.

Essentially the way the state of Kentucky has laid out the law and requires a city or it does not require cities to renege on any previous positions that they were governing drug policies by.

So in the city of Wilder or excuse me, last year, the City of Wilder passed in a new employee handbook that laid out those rules just because medical cannabis is now legal in the state of Kentucky, the state law essentially lays out that Wilder is able to continue to follow those rules.

I think really where the rationale from their standpoint comes in is they wanted to go ahead and make the health and safety workers specifically barred from being able to do that because the city believes that it's a critical position in the public need.

So was there any backlash about that or any pushback?

Or do people say, well, that seems to make sense.

As far as I know, people say that it seems to make sense.

I don't think there was really any public public objections at the meeting toward this law.

Now, I haven't really seen anything on social media to indicate that people are upset over this ruling.

I would imagine a lot of other northern Kentucky cities would probably start to roll out similar types of laws.

But as far as I know, no, there hasn't been any public backlash.

And speaking of those cities, as you had reported earlier this week, there are Wilder is one of the ten northern Kentucky cities that voted during the November 5th election to allow medical cannabis operations within city limits.

So to your point, do you expect other cities nearby in northern Kentucky to follow Wilder's suit here?

Yes, I do.

I believe a lot of other cities that have voted to allow medical cannabis will also allow medical cannabis.

Business operations will eventually take up some sort of measures that will bar public health and safety workers from being able to consume medical cannabis on the job.

Well, Kenton Hornbeck, thank you so much for your time today and for your reporting.

And I know we'll be in touch with you again soon.

Thanks so much, Renee.

I appreciate it.