House To Change Cannabis Legalization and Force Third Senate Vote

House Democrats spent the morning meeting behind closed doors, trying to navigate an increasingly convoluted path to legalizing recreational cannabis.

“We laid out different scenarios and the overwhelming majority said, ‘It’s been eight years.

House Majority Leader Jason Rojas said he supported a similar provision when the Judiciary Committee passed a cannabis legalization bill during the regular session.

“There was going to be a lot of emotion about this bill, there was going to be a lot of ideas on this bill and that the vote count was always going to be very, very close,” Rojas said.

“We’ll have to again talk to our members when we hit critical mass,” Senate President Martin Looney said Tuesday.

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