It’s time to for Kansas to legalize marijuana and stop letting other states collect tax revenue by selling cannabis to its residents, the Democratic Party’s nominee for governor in next month’s election says. She is also calling out her Republican opponent for blocking marijuana reform bills in the legislature despite public support.
“I believe close to 70 percent of the population is in favor of legalization, but you get a few people once in a while who will say, ‘Well, we don’t want to bring that here,’” Cindy Holscher, who currently serves as a state senator, said in an interview with 12 News.
“My response: It’s already here. If you drive along state line in Johnson County, you drive along the border on the southern edge to Oklahoma, and you see the dispensaries—there’s Kansas plates there,” she said. “So it’s already here.”
“But what’s happening is we aren’t getting the revenue for it, and we aren’t getting our guardrails in place. We need to do that,” Holscher said. “The revenue that’s projected to come in could help us do things like better funding public education in terms of special ed, could help us in terms of free lunches for kids—making
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