"Big picture, 2022 could be a record-breaking year for legalization and medicinal cannabis, both in state legislatures and on the ballot," said Karen O’Keefe, MPP's director of state policies.
"We certainly hope that this action is just making sure that this bill meets any concerns that Senate leadership may have concerning this historic legislation. This bill had widespread bipartisan support in the House last session. We hope Senate President Masterson quickly holds a committee hearing and advances this legislation," said Kevin Caldwell, MPP's Southeast legislative manager.
"We’re excited about the prospects for legalization in Delaware this year. Delawareans have long supported ending prohibition, but it is up to the legislature to bring equitable legalization to Delaware. HB 305 is the vehicle to get it done this year," said Olivia Naugle, MPP's senior policy analyst.
"The patients who suffer daily have already had their will overturned by a technicality. If the legislature does not pass SB 2095, they are simply pushing patients to the illicit market," said Kevin Caldwell, MPP's Southeast legislative manager.
Cannabis compounds prevented the virus that causes COVID-19 from penetrating healthy human cells, according to a laboratory study published in the Journal of Nature Products.
"The bottom line is possession and cultivation by adults is already legal. The governor has said he won’t seek to overturn the law on personal possession. I doubt he could do so if he wanted to because it’s already law and the Democrat-controlled Senate is still in power, and I don’t think they’d reverse themselves because he wanted them to. But the details of how the regulated system will operate are still very much in question and haven’t been signed off on. Any of that could change," said Karen O'Keefe, MPP's director of state policies.
"People lose the opportunity to get jobs, to get housing. To get educational assistance. These are key things that can haunt people for the rest of their lives for something that is legal in 18 states," said Kevin Caldwell, MPP's Southeast legislative manager.