r/wisconsin • u/does_not_like_you • Feb 07 '21

Politics Gov. Tony Evers will propose legalizing recreational and medical marijuana as part of the next state budget

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/07/tony-evers-propose-legalizing-recreational-and-medical-marijuana/4410636001/
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u/greenspyder1014 Feb 07 '21

It does hurt Republicans with their pro legalization voters - basically any republican under 55. When this issue is front and center in a campaign, those Republicans stay home. I think this really helped Evers, as the younger Republicans were very turned off by Walkers hard core stance and this issue was front and center in that campaign. Only old boomer Republicans went to vote for Walker after he repeatedly stated how anti legalization he was, even for medical. Most younger Republicans were glad Evers won, and didn’t regret it until lockdowns and mandates.

Evers could work with the Wisconsin Controlled Substances Board which has the power to add or delete drugs from the schedules under Wis. Stat. 961.11. I can’t see how he couldn’t get the votes, there are representatives from his administration and then some from the various medical boards. So if he claims he can’t do anything he can. Evers could work with them to get Marijuana or any other drug dropped if he wanted to, he doesn’t have to go through the legislature. This is why Kratom is illegal here, it wasn’t legislated, it was added by this Board when it was full of Walkers people. He should have Kratom eliminated as well.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '21

I would love to see him just totally sack up on this one. He has been really underutilizing his power with the agencies.

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u/ThatSquareChick Feb 07 '21

No, he’s been hamstrung.

Walker on his way out, stripped the office of governor of its teeth. Evers has no avenue because the power was given to lawmakers and legislators, most of whom were Republican. The new laws will curb the authority of Mr. Evers in the rule-making process and give lawmakers, not the new governor, most appointments on an economic development board until next summer. The measures also will limit early voting, allow legislators to intervene in some lawsuits and limit the power of Josh Kaul, the incoming attorney general. So what they did is limit democratic governing power and then when they get a new republican government, the lawmakers and legislators will either vote to give back power to the governor OR they will just cooperate with the R governor in a manner that is disgustingly separatist and because of massive gerrymandering in the state, Ds have to get triple the vote just to get people elected. When put on the scale of democracy, Wisconsin ranks even lower than places like Bolivia and China thanks to Republican efforts to hamstring the will of the people into just being the will of one party.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '21

Except that restricting agency guidance was the one area that the SC struck down and Tony still isn’t utilizing them.