For the first time this summer, House Majority Floor Leader, Jon Echols, believes that a Special Session just might be averted altogether.
Today the Bicameral Interim Study on Medical Marijuana met for the 7th time. The topic was testing, standards, and labeling. the Health Dept. discussed their decisions on the creation of emergency rules; namely, which rules they believed they had the constitutional authority to impose for the immediate rollout of medical cannabis, until the 2019 legislature could establish permanent statutory language for such long term solutions. When the Health Dept. completed their presentation, Echols began a series of very pointed and specific questions regarding the Health Dept's view of their authority. He pointed out that the agency had no more authority to create labeling standards than they had to create the testing mandates. Some are wondering if this isn't Echols' "plan B" as a result of not getting the needed consensus on a legislative proposal? If agency rules can address testing, then the other matters might be able to wait until February and the regular legislative session with the new lawmakers. |
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