In state after state, marijuana proposals encountered significant turbulence, and the clock is now running out on the legislative season
This was supposed to be the big year for marijuana legalization. But in many state capitols across the country, efforts have stalled or collapsed as Democrats clash over everything from race and criminal justice to how to divvy up a gold mine of pot tax revenue.
New Jersey’s top lawmaker declared the state’s legalization drive dead and will instead support a 2020 ballot referendum. New York Democrats are trying to rekindle efforts to pass a bill that would permit recreational use after negotiations stalled out during the budget process in March. And in New Mexico, a legalization bill got pushed aside for more pressing priorities, most notably boosting education funding.
“The legislative process is difficult, it's complicated and it's really challenging to get agreement on a large-scale social reform,” said John Hudak, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and author of "Marijuana: A Short History", noting that marijuana advocates often overestimate its salience. “While cannabis reform is very popular, it's not something that most Americans feel passionately about.
“We think we’re getting close,” Illinois state Sen. Heather Steans, chief sponsor of the legalization bill,, told POLITICO recently. “We’ve been working on this two years. It’s been a collaborative process with many stakeholders at the table.”
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