LINCOLN- This year, Lincoln Senator Anna Wishart introduced Legislative Bill 474, which provides a regulatory framework to establish access to cannabis for medical purposes, and she has designated it as her priority bill. While Wishart says she's "a little shy of the spotlight," it has spun her way, with the light shining even brighter after Gov. Pete Ricketts unloaded on any efforts to legalize marijuana.

"If you legalize marijuana, you're gonna kill your kids," the governor stated in a flash-bang moment that attracted national attention.

Wishart, who is married to a former Lincoln police officer, said she wants Nebraska to have "a safe, regulated system that incentivizes people to work with their health care provider to determine when cannabis may be the right decision" for medical purposes.

When she traveled the state seeking signatures for the 2020 petition drive to place that issue on the ballot, Wishart said, "I never heard a negative word."

Rather, she said, "I was hard-pressed not to find some person who hadn't benefited from it. So many stories."

Last year, nearly 200,000 Nebraskans signed petitions to place the issue on the 2020 general election ballot for a decision by the people, but it was bumped off the ballot by a Nebraska Supreme Court decision on technical grounds.

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