Wisconsin’s GOP Senate president says she’s “hoping to have a conversation” in the legislature next month about legalizing medical marijuana in 2025—though the Republican Assembly speaker still represents “an obstacle,” she added.
Senate President Mary Felzkowski (R), who’s previously sponsored medical cannabis legislation, said at a WiscPolitics event on Tuesday that “there’s really one person that has seemed to be an obstacle” to the reform, and that he “has some pretty strict ideas on how that bill should be drafted.”
That’s a reference to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R), who earlier this year introduced a restrictive medical marijuana bill to provide limited access through state-run dispensaries. That proposed model faced criticism on both sides of the aisle, and the measure ultimately died for the session shortly after it was filed.
“We’re hoping to have a conversation in early January to see if there isn’t a way that we can come to a consensus between Assembly Republicans and Senate Republicans to negotiate a compromise and maybe move medical marijuana bill this session,” Felzkowski said. “That conversation has not taken place yet.”
The Senate’s top Democrat, meanwhile, also said this week that she intends to introduce a medical marijuana
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