While lawmakers have been mostly in agreement over details surrounding delivery, cannabis lounges, and expunging criminal records, they just cannot seem to agree on taxes.
According to a recent report, the state would be better off with legal weed, which would create 24,000 jobs and generate more than $500 million in state and local tax revenue.
It is expected to pass with language legalizing hemp farming. And it seems a compromise has been reached between the politicians on issues that had been stalling the legislation.
Barr remains a big supporter of policies that go against the grain of where the country is headed concerning drug-related issues, particularly in relation to marijuana legalization.
The initiative of government officials to do this on their own is a great indicator that the tides continue to change in favor of cannabis and against the once prominent stigma that surrounded it.