Indiana state officials are holding a series of meetings with medical marijuana advocates at the direction of the Republican governor.
One day after the Trump administration announced that federal cannabis rescheduling is moving forward, officials from the Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Health and other state agencies sat down with Hoosier Veterans for Medical Cannabis and Indiana NORML to discuss potential next steps at the state level.
The meetings, activists said, came at the request of Gov. Mike Braun (R).
“The governor has reached out to us to meet with other heads within his department to get their intake on this move,” military veteran Jeff Staker, one of the advocates, told Fox 59. “Our next step, hopefully, will be in the governor’s office.”
Lucy Luman, who is also a veteran and serves as chair of Indiana NORML, said that federal reform “does address the major challenges that our legislators have put forward previously.”
The advocates previously met with Indiana Secretary of Business Affairs Mike Speedy, they told WHTR-TV.
“It tells you that the governor’s really taken a close look at this, and I’m hoping that our organization and others can get in the governor’s office
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