The path forward for a medical cannabis bill in the Nebraska Legislature appears more uncertain after a committee chair tasked his members with deciding what medical conditions would qualify for access in the state and which forms of medical cannabis would be allowed.
State Sen. Rick Holdcroft of Bellevue, chair of the Legislature's General Affairs Committee, described that task to his seven fellow committee members Wednesday. He provided them lists to choose a handful from the "debilitating medical conditions" approved in neighboring Iowa, as well as what he said were the 42 conditions approved across the 38 other states with medical cannabis laws.
Holdcroft described the comprehensive list as "everything but the kitchen sink" in talking with the Nebraska Examiner, explaining that the "people were silent" on what medical conditions would apply when they overwhelmingly adopted legalizing medical cannabis in November.
"We make it legal for anything and everything, it's essentially recreational marijuana at that point," Holdcroft said, a stance advocates of the ballot measure argue is wrong.
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