Former U.S. transportation secretary and potential 2028 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says that the medical benefits of marijuana have “made a difference” for people close to him.
“I can tell you that I think the American majority recognizes that people should have access to this,” the former Biden administration cabinet member and South Bend, Indiana mayor said during a visit to Nebraska last week to support a Democratic congressional candidate from the state.
“Its certainly made a difference to people I’ve served with, to people in my extended family, and I hope common sense prevails,” Buttigieg said.
The comments come as Nebraska officials are moving forward to some extent to implement ballot initiatives that voters approved in 2024 to legalize medical cannabis and provide for a regulatory structure to oversee businesses that provide it to patients.
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) has claimed that the cannabis measure never should have appeared on the ballot due to alleged issues related to the petitioning campaign in support of it. Advocates in the state have also complained that rules approved by regulators and signed by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) have rolled back the scope of patient rights contemplated in the initiatives that
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