A bill to legalize medical cannabis in Nebraska went up in smoke this week. It’s unclear if someone in the legislature will speak up for it. The legislation was dealt a sequence of setbacks that dimmed its prospects: its sponsor, Republican state Senator Mike Groene, resigned abruptly on Monday, and at a hearing held at the capital of Lincoln on Wednesday, “No one spoke in favor of it,” according to local television station WOWT. “The only reason it got a hearing at all is that State Senator Anna Wishart of Lincoln, one of the most vocal medical marijuana supports [sic] in the Legislature, picked up the bill—not that she likes it, but because she wanted to give people who had circled this date to still have a chance at addressing the Judiciary Committee,” the station reported. Now, according to WOWT, the bill is “dead on arrival.” The outcome does not come as a great surprise. It was only a week ago when Groene, prior to his sudden resignation, said that the legislation was “just a shell bill” that he intended to replace with a more comprehensive proposal.
420 Intel – Marijuana Industry News, 02/24/2022 19:00:00