“It’s not going to happen this year. I wasn’t going to waste a bill slot for a bill that I knew wasn’t going to move.”
By Tom Davies, Indiana Capital Chronicle
Advocates for marijuana legalization in Indiana already know 2026 won’t be the year they see it happen.
Despite President Donald Trump signing an executive order in December for reclassifying marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, the Republican-dominated state Legislature isn’t acting on any bills that would allow medical or recreational use.
Instead, legislators are advancing proposals that would tighten state laws on delta-8 products with THC—the active ingredient in marijuana—and crack down on advertisements for marijuana dispensaries in neighboring states.
The stance has one marijuana legalization advocate arguing that Indiana officials are “sticking their head in the sand.”
Trump stance hasn’t shifted Indiana status
Indiana is among only 10 states that don’t allow either medicinal and recreational marijuana sales.
Legalization supporters made a prominent push going into the 2025 legislative session but were unable to persuade lawmakers to take any action on the issue.
Trump’s executive order in December to shift cannabis from its current Schedule I status, alongside drugs such as heroin and LSD, to the less-regulated Schedule III level would seem to weaken
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