Wisconsin senators are set to take up a newly filed Republican-led bill that would legalize medical marijuana in the state next week.
Senate President Mary Felzkowski (R), who’s previously sponsored medical cannabis legislation in past sessions, formally introduced the new legislation alongside Sen. Patrick Testin (R) on Wednesday. This comes about two weeks after the GOP leader previewed the proposal, as well as an Assembly companion version from Assemblymember Patrick Snyder (R) and other House members.
Now that it’s been filed, the Senate Health Committee is scheduled to take it up at a hearing next Wednesday.
Wisconsin’s GOP Assembly speaker said last week that he hopes lawmakers in the state can “find a consensus” on legislation to legalize medical marijuana. But he added that the new cannabis bill filed by his Republican leadership counterpart in the Senate is “unlikely” to pass his chamber because it is “way too broad and way too wide-ranging.”
As the 2025 session was set to get underway, Felzkowski said she was “hoping to have a conversation” in the legislature about legalizing medical marijuana this year—though the Republican Assembly speaker still represented “an obstacle,” she added.
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