While he has been quoted in local media saying that while the legislature is “still not there” on a final product, he is at least ready to say that “we’ve worked down to almost one issue that’s left.” That specific issue, it seems, is who will regulate the cannabis market should Rhode Island enact a cannabis legalization measure.
With just one major provision left to resolve following months of negotiations, and a productive Senate vote in 2021 that indicated a corner had been turned, Shekarchi now says that he expects the matter to be resolved early in 2022.
In the first month of 2022, Rhode Island finds itself becoming ever more of an island, one surrounded by a sea of legalization.
The Rhode Island legislature’s negotiations over a potential independent cannabis commission, as well as how to handle potential expungement of marijuana convictions or related criminal justice reform, continue.
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