The top North Carolina House lawmaker says that medical marijuana legalization has “a better chance of passing this year than in any time in the past,” and he expects a Senate-passed reform bill to be taken up by his chamber’s Republican caucus within the next month.
While the GOP-controlled House has previously blocked medical cannabis legislation from advancing, House Speaker Tim Moore (R) said that its prospects have improved, with a floor vote possible depending on where Republican members ultimately come down on it this session.
“We have not voted on it in our caucus yet. I get a sense that there is a decent amount of support for medicinal use of cannabis—but then there is also a significant amount of of opposition,” he told WUNC in an interview taped on the marijuana holiday 4/20 on Thursday. “I don’t know that count. I suspect it will be a divided vote, much like the healthcare expansion legislation was, much like the gaming legislation that passed earlier.”
“It’s just a matter to see what the caucus’s appetite is on it, but it’s—I would say that it has a better chance of passing this year than in any time in the past,” Moore
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