LINCOLN — The voter-approved Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission is banking on the Legislature to pass the state’s first-ever bill related to a medical cannabis program as a key step toward a regulated, functional system.

LB 1071 would give the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission, which houses the Medical Cannabis Commission, an additional $1.38 million this fiscal year ending June 30 and $1 million for the next fiscal year. LB 1235, the regulatory bill for the commission, advanced for the first time in early March, Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana celebrated, noting the shift by an elected body that had “stood in the way” of a decade of fight from patients, caregivers and advocates.

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