A bill to legalize medical marijuana in North Carolina is likely dead for the session, the top Republican House lawmaker says.
House Speaker Tim Moore (R) said on Tuesday he will not break an internal rule that requires bills to have support from the majority of the Republican caucus in order to bring them to the floor. And while some GOP members back the cannabis bill, it doesn’t appear it will get that required majority this round.
Doing so “would require a number of House members who’ve taken a position of ‘no’ to literally switch their position to want to vote for it, and I just don’t see that happening,” Moore told reporters.
“As long as there’s not a majority of the Republicans willing to vote for it, it won’t come up,” he said, even though he’d personally vote in favor of it.
House Majority Leader John Bell (R) shares that perspective. He separately said on Monday that while there are “still discussions going on” about the medical marijuana bill, he’s “very sure you won’t see that bill move this session” due to insufficient support among Republicans. He said that was “unfortunately” the case.
“It’s a policy change—a major policy
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