Kansas lawmakers held their second of three planned hearings on medical marijuana legalization on Wednesday, hearing testimony from supporters, opponents and neutral parties on the reform effort.
This comes one week after the members of the legislature’s Special Committee on Medical Marijuana, which a bicameral panel formed in June, convened for an initial meeting that involved state officials, law enforcement and an Oklahoma medical cannabis regulator giving their perspective on the issue.
The chairman of the committee, Sen. Robert Olson (R), said at that meeting that members would also be accepting feedback from interested parties that could be worked into the pending proposal over a several-week period between meetings when lawmakers will be “putting the bill together” to present to the full legislature.
“This is not our first meeting on this,” Olson said on Wednesday. “I think everybody appears trying to do the right thing… I know Kansans want this for pain relief.”
But he stressed the importance of this process and carefully crafting legislation that avoids what he described as the mistakes of other states that have enacted medical cannabis legalization at the ballot like Oklahoma and Missouri. The chairman said that if he tries to put legislation on
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