A Maine Republican lawmaker is calling out colleagues for killing his bill that would have allowed marijuana consumption lounges to operate in the state.
On Monday, the House of Representatives voted 108-35 to adopt a committee’s recommendation not to pass the bill, LD 1365 from Rep. David Boyer (R).
The lawmaker said members of his own party were “about split” on the vote, wheres the “vast majority” of Democrats voted against allowing his cannabis legislation to advance.
Only seven Democrats voted against the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee’s majority report recommending that the bill not pass, while 65 members of the party supported the move to kill the legislation.
Among Republicans, 28 members voted against stalling the measure while 41 backed the motion.
“Maine lawmakers showed their contempt for voters today by killing the cannabis hospitality lounge bill,” Boyer, who led the fight to pass cannabis legalization at the ballot about 10 years ago when he was a staffer for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), told Marijuana Moment.
“This was a core provision of the 2016 citizens initiative that Maine voters approved nearly ten years ago to legalize adult-use cannabis and create safe, regulated social consumption spaces,” he said, referring
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