Indiana’s Republican governor says he hopes that opposition to legalizing medical marijuana from GOP leaders in the state legislature “softens”—pointing to the benefits cannabis has for military veterans and other people dealing with trauma and issues “where there’s nothing else that seems to work.”
Gov. Mike Braun (R) told WPTA-TV in an interview posted on Friday that Indiana is now “surrounded by four states that now have medical marijuana available,” and Hoosiers are “crossing the border” to purchase it.
“I think there’s going to be a serious consideration of it,” he said of legalization legislation. “And when it comes to the medical side of it—where I said I was agnostic in general—everything I can see, I think, especially now that you have four states where it’s available, we need to look at it seriously.”
A Republican state senator last week announced plans to file legislation to legalize medical marijuana in the 2027 session in light of previous comments from the governor about cannabis and as reform advances at the federal level under the Trump administration.
Braun acknowledged in the new interview that his power on the issue is fairly limited and that it will be up to leadership in the
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