A top Oklahoma GOP lawmaker is breaking with the governor over his recent proposal to have voters revisit the state’s medical marijuana law and, ultimately, “shut it down.”
While Senate President Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton (R) initially expressed openness to the idea, he said he’s given it more thought and determined it’d be “really hard to completely undo” legalization and unfair to licensed medical cannabis operators who “invested their life savings into this program” and are “trying to do this for the Oklahomans that need that product—not for recreational, but for actual medicinal purposes.”
“It’s hard to unring that bell,” he said. “What I’m going to suggest to the governor is that we don’t run a state question on that, but instead we continue to push the regulations [and] we continue to regulate the industry.”
“What we got was this cartel-infested rural Oklahoma that was really, really the center of illegal marijuana in the nation,” Paxton said. “We have taken a big bite out of that, and we’re going to continue to work on it.”
He added that he’d “give the attorney general’s office credit as well,” as they’ve worked “very hard on it and continue to drive the illegal
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