Looks like Tennessee won’t be seeing medical marijuana legalized anytime soon.
The state’s lawmakers have abandoned a plan this week to introduce a proposal that would legalize the drug and regulate it medicinally through Tennessee.
Medical marijuana advocate Sen. Steve Dickerson,R-Nashville said that the proposal did not have enough support to pass, so advocates were delaying bills on the topic until 2020.
The abandoned proposal would have allowed marijuana products to be consumed in a variety of ways but not through smoking. Medical marijuana would be legal in “nasal sprays, capsules, pills, suppositories, transdermal patches, ointments, lotions, lozenges, tinctures, oils and liquids,” said the bill.
If the bill had been introduced and enacted into law, medical marijuana would have been available for sale in Tennessee as early as next summer.
