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House panel sends constitutional amendment to voters to give legislature sole authority over marijuana and other psychoactive substances
Summary
Representative Bruce Skog, R-District 10, told the House State Affairs Committee the proposed constitutional amendment would give the Legislature sole authority to legalize marijuana, narcotics and other psychoactive substances and asked the committee to send House Joint Resolution 4 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
Representative Bruce Skog, R-District 10, told the House State Affairs Committee the proposed constitutional amendment would give the Legislature sole authority to legalize "the growing, producing, manufacturing, transporting, selling, delivering, dispensing, administering, prescribing, distributing, possessing, or using of marijuana, narcotics, or other psychoactive substances." He asked the committee to send House Joint Resolution 4 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
Skog said the resolution would place a question before Idaho voters asking to amend the state constitution so that those categories of drugs would be governed only by the Legislature. He described the step as a way to prevent out-of-state initiative campaigns from changing state…
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