The Democratic candidate running to be Nebraska’s next governor is promising to issue an executive order to expedite access to medical marijuana on “day one” of her administration if she is elected.
Lynne Walz said it’s “a really sad situation” that the administration of her opponent, incumbent Gov. Jim Pillen (R), has failed to stand up a medical cannabis program nearly two years after voters’ approval of legalization ballot measures.
“Day one, I will sign an executive order…to make sure that people can get medical marijuana with prescriptions from their doctors,” Walz said in an interview with WOWT-TV.
The Democratic candidate also suggested that she would replace Pillen-appointed members of the Medical Cannabis Commission for not getting the program off the ground quickly enough.
“The other thing that we’ll look at is making sure that the people who are on this commission that are slow-walking access to medical marijuana—if they’re not going to do the job that we need them to do, the job that Nebraskans overwhelmingly voted for—if they can’t get that done, then we’ll find other people who will take that job seriously,” she said.
Walz also spoke about a Vietnam veteran neighbor of hers with
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