The attorney general of Oklahoma says he would “love” to see the state’s medical marijuana program wiped out, as the governor recently suggested. But he cautioned that doing so would mean reimbursing the hundreds of licensees participating in the market because the state would be “taking” a revenue source away from them.
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) was asked about Gov. Kevin Stitt’s (R) call to have voters revisit the state’s medical marijuana program and ultimately “shut it down.” Drummond said it’s a “complicated issue.”
“Now, clearly, when we passed this law in 2018, we were asleep at the switch, right?” he said. “We did not put proper protocol in place to limit the number of marijuana grow facilities. It was truly the Wild West.”
“We have to balance the investment in those legal operations with the desire by all law enforcement—I think unanimity, that there’s unanimity among law enforcement—if we didn’t have marijuana at all, it would be better for the state,” the attorney general said. “But we have to be aware of, and if the governor goes forward with this plan or a future governor does, then we would need to reimburse
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