“Today, I thought, was pathetic. It was awful. Today, all I heard were opponents against it, who were spouting a lot of reefer madness and a lot of misinformation, really prone to hyperbole in such a way that it was truly offensive.”
During a second round of testimony about medical marijuana, opponents spoke of cannabis-induced suicides, marijuana poisoning and spiking crime rates, in what some have called a blatant attempt at halting the legislation.
At the start of the Thursday meeting of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, one of the audience members, an anti-abortion lobbyist, introduced a new bill that would make abortion illegal in Kansas by using civil enforcement, with an exception given in cases where the mother’s life is in danger.
The rest of the hearing focused on marijuana legalization, though only invited opponents were allowed to speak. When asked about the fairness of this decision, Committee Chair Sen. Mike Thompson, a Shawnee Republican, said legalization proponents had already gotten their chance to speak during the hearings held by the 2022 Special Committee on Medical Marijuana.
“There were four days of proponents on the special committee,” Thompson said. “I felt after I watched the proceedings that
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