LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Although voters overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana last year, Attorney General Mike Hilgers was joined by sheriffs across Nebraska who also oppose an amendment to LB 677 at a press conference on Wednesday.
During the conference, Hilgers said the bill and an amendment working through the legislature right now would create a loophole to have recreational marijuana in the state.
According to Hilgers, smoking and vaping has no medicinal value despite that recent amendment saying flower could not be smoked as a means for treatment. But, he also says topicals, creams and edibles should be ruled out too.
His other concern is that people would stockpile products and then sell them on a black market of sorts.
“Now it doesn’t take someone very long to be in the line of work that these people are in to know that while many people might just use the marijuana that they purchase for their own purposes, there will be people and probably a not small number of people who are going to use that to further the black market and sell it to their friends, sell it to their neighbors,” Hilgers said.
Lawmakers have until June 9 to pass the proposed regulatory bill, and if it doesn’t pass, the regulatory body of the cannabis commission must put regulations in place by July 1.
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