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Robin Vos: “The wrong thing for Wisconsin is to legalize recreational…”

Featuring: Robin Vos, Republican | Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly

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: UPFRONT_ GOP proposes ‘restrictive’ med marijuana bill

Published | Video Starts at 08:48

… comments that Governor Evers said, is that it's the first step toward recreational marijuana that scares the bejesus out of most of the members of my caucus because we know The wrong thing for Wisconsin is to legalize recreational marijuana. We have way too many drugs. We just went through a huge opioid crisis. The last thing that we need is marijuana shops on every street corner of every small town in Wisconsin like we're seeing in Michigan and Illinois. (08:48–08:52)

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Asserts that legalizing recreational marijuana is not suitable for Wisconsin.

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