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Melissa Hughes: “I want to legalize [marijuana]... by looking at other states…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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WI Gubernatorial Candidate Missy Huges Speaks at CoCo Dems Headquarters

Published | Video Starts at 33:00

Do you support legalizing medical marijuana and recreational marijuana in Wisconsin? And do you see any lessons that should be learned from other states in the area that already have done that? Yeah, actually, how I want to legalize [marijuana]... by looking at other states and learning lessons from what they've done. Right. And what has worked and what hasn't worked worked. I think we see in Michigan right now there's a lot of challenges around the licensing of distributors. (33:00–33:06)

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Asserts a plan to legalize marijuana in Wisconsin by learning from other states' experiences.

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