Crafting sweeping legislation is not always perfect on the first try.
Rather, it often takes more than one go-around to get things right, that is, to close loopholes and fix unintended consequences.
A case in point is HF4757, the cannabis policy bill, approved by the House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee on Wednesday. The 91-page proposal would make more than three-dozen statutory changes to last session’s sweeping legislation legalizing recreational cannabis for adults.
The 2023 legislation appropriated nearly $80 million in the 2024-25 biennium to establish statewide and local structures to regulate and manage cannabis sales, fund prevention and addiction recovery programs, and provide grants to law enforcement and courts.