A top Republican Wisconsin lawmaker says President Donald Trump made the “wrong” choice to order the rescheduling of marijuana—which he called a “dangerous drug”—but he says the upside is that research barriers may be lifted in a way that demonstrates medical cannabis can be effectively used in a limited way as an alternative to prescription medications.
As advocates hold out hope for some form of legalization in the state, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) said he thinks “we are not there” in terms of having enough votes to advance even a medical cannabis bill through his chamber at this point, despite characterizing himself as a supporter of patients’ access to marijuana “for almost a decade now.”
At the federal level, however, Vos told CBS 58 that “I think what President Trump did by declassifying—or, you know, reducing the classification of marijuana—was wrong.”
“I think marijuana is still a dangerous drug that should never be legalized in Wisconsin. All the data that’s coming out from states who’ve used it—it’s bad for kids, it’s bad for adults, it has long-term consequences that are all negative,” he said. “But the only positive that is going to come out of that is perhaps we
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