Indiana Republican leaders signal hesitation to legalize medical marijuana in 2025

[Emile]

INDIANAPOLIS—Although almost 90 percent of Hoosiers support legalizing medicinal marijuana, Republican leaders have signaled that might not happen next session.

“With regard to medical marijuana, I really have, it’s no secret that I’m not for this,” Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said during the 2024 Dentons Legislative Conference earlier this month. ”I don’t have people coming to me with really compelling medical cases as to why it’s so beneficial.”

Bray’s counterpart in the Indiana House, Speaker Todd Huston, echoed similar sentiments during the conference.

”I will push back on ‘we’re behind’, because I’m not sure what we’re behind on,” Huston said. “If we’re behind on having fewer people use an addictive substance, I don’t know, I’m okay with that.”

Bray went on to say he hoped lawmakers would shift their focus next session from marijuana to Delta-8—a psychoactive substance found in hemp.

Continued at: https://fox59.com/indiana-news/indiana-republican-leaders-signal-hesitation-to-legalize-medical-marijuana-in-2025/

[walkingman]

1. When misery is the goal (which in the Republican mind is always good) then why

would they approve anything that helps alleviate it? The more miserable they can keep people the better their chances to remain in power. Fear and desperation are the key factors in GOP ideology.....assholes.

[riversedge]

2. It is clear the Indiana Republicans do NOT want to help people in pain, nor listen their their constituents.

[Falcon101]

3. Freedom is the key

How about letting us decide what is best for us
Legalize it, provide information and let one decide. Similar to what MAGA wants for vaccines. So much for the freedom thing they talk about.

[bearsfootball516]

4. Indiana Republicans are a horrific bunch, and they've been getting worse.

[Emile]

5. Still calling cannabis an addictive substance. Ignorant as hell.

[Oneear]

6. Patients that are Sick with No FDA Medical Medicine want to be Normal with Natural Medicine

We have HHS, NIH, CDC, and FDA, which cannot deliver scientific help with Medicine, so I am one. I have Tinnitus High C 24/7/365. Ask yourself how to Sleep when you have that noise at night. I have found Duearity Product called Tinearity G1 White Noise. And Yes, I take RSHO X, Delta 9, by Hemp Meds. This is how I am able to have a quality of life that is NORMAL.