One Republican in the Wisconsin Senate calls the governor’s proposal to legalize marijuana “off-the-wall scary.” Senator Alberta Darling and other Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee says the effort to legalize medical marijuana and small amounts of recreational pot won’t pass. Evers included the idea in his two-year state budget. State Representative John Nygren says the Joint Finance Committee won’t include the item when it begins making revisions to the governor’s budget early next month.
