Saying its time has come, state Sen. Morgan McGarvey on Wednesday called on the legislature to consider legalizing medical marijuana to relieve pain and suffering of terminally ill people.
“It’s 2017,” McGarvey, a Louisville Democrat, told members of the joint House-Senate Health and Welfare Committee. “I think it’s time we had a conversation about medical marijuana without snickering.”
Members of the committee took no action on legislation McGarvey is proposing for the 2018 legislative session but no one spoke against the proposal and some committee members spoke in favor of the measure that went nowhere in the past two legislative sessions.
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