According to Alabama House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia, medical marijuana needs more study.
McCutcheon has said that he expects lawmakers to appoint a committee to do that, rather than pass Melson’s bill in the form that left the Senate.
“It’s in the educational phase,” McCutcheon said recently. “Members are studying. We’re listening to the opponents and proponents on it. We’re gathering information. And that’s one reason that this study commission idea, I think, is going to be very significant.”
Alabamba’s Senate passed a medical marijuana bill on May 9, but it has not advanced in the House yet.
According to McCutcheon, progress has been made on the issue and he expects the commission to be given a deadline to report its findings to the Legislature.
