Marijuana Moment reports
A Delaware Senate committee on Wednesday approved a House-passed bill to legalize marijuana possession and sharing for adults 21 and older—a move that comes one day after a complementary measure to set up rules for an adult-use market advanced out of a second committee in the House and now heads to the floor of that chamber.
Rep. Ed Osienski (D) is sponsoring both measures as part of a two-track approach to enacting the reform. He initially tried to pass a bill that included both components, but it failed to get a three-fifths supermajority and was defeated on the House floor in March.
The sponsor then devised a different plan, breaking up the measure so that he would have one bill to simply legalize possession for those 21 and older that only requires a simple majority to pass and another to create regulations for the market that still needs three-fifths of members to be enacted.
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