SPRINGFIELD, IL – (Greg Bishop and Dan McCaleb, Illinois News Network. Please click on the link for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
Expect more hearings on efforts to legalize and tax adult marijuana use in Illinois in an effort lawmakers say is meant to craft the best law possible.
During a joint House and Senate hearing Wednesday on public safety aspects of proposals to legalize recreational pot, state Sen. Dale Righter, R-Mattoon, said if weed is legal for adult recreational use, law enforcement needs more tools to go after bad actors.
Expect more hearings on efforts to legalize and tax adult marijuana use in Illinois in an effort lawmakers say is meant to craft the best law possible.
During a joint House and Senate hearing Wednesday on public safety aspects of proposals to legalize recreational pot, state Sen. Dale Righter, R-Mattoon, said if weed is legal for adult recreational use, law enforcement needs more tools to go after bad actors.
“If you’re going to create a regulated system,” Righter said, “if you want to drive down the grey market that we heard about from Colorado that’s 25 percent, you’re going to have to beef the penalties up for people playing outside the system.”
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