Wisconsin’s GOP Assembly speaker said he hopes lawmakers in the state can “find a consensus” on legislation to legalize medical marijuana. But he added that a 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.”
“I have tried for five or six years to find a way to get to yes,” Speaker Robin Vos (R) said in an interview with WISN-TV on Sunday. “The idea that we are going to have medical marijuana dispensaries in every city around the state, I don’t know that’s where most people are.”
Last year, Vos unveiled a limited medical cannabis bill that called for a limited program facilitated through state-run dispensaries.
“So we tried to have a much more limited version to say, ‘look, let’s have five or six dispensaries statewide [and] make sure that it’s not in a profit-driven motive, to help people who truly are sick with some kind of a diagnosis,’” he said in the new interview.
But the state-run model proved controversial among his Republican colleagues, however, and it ultimately stalled out. Now, Vos is raising concerns about new legislation introduced
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