“I’ll note at the federal level that marijuana is still a controlled substance.”
By Zach Wendling, Nebraska Examiner
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., sidestepped a question Wednesday about whether he would support adding Nebraska to a congressional list protecting state medical cannabis laws from federal interference after Congress left the state off the latest update in January.
Ricketts, speaking on his weekly press call Wednesday, said he isn’t on the Senate Appropriations Committee, so he didn’t know why Nebraska was left off a list that currently covers 47 states. The other two not included are Kansas and Idaho, which lack medical cannabis programs. Other states on the list have less expansive laws than Nebraska voters approved in 2024.
“I didn’t find out about it until it was raised in the press,” Ricketts said.
U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., is a member of Appropriations. Her staff did not return multiple requests for comment on the issue in February and again on Wednesday.
Since 2014, Congress has prevented the U.S. Department of Justice and related agencies from using federal dollars to interfere with state medical marijuana programs.
But despite Nebraskans approving two ballot measures to legalize and regulate the new medicine, national
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