New developments happened Wednesday night within the Illinois Senate, they voted and approved a bill to legalize marijuana.
The bill would allow adults 21 and older to consume, possess and purchase certain amounts of cannabis for personal use, and seeks to create a legally regulated system of marijuana production and sales.
.@SenatorSteans and Sen. @ToiHutchinson have done tremendous work to reach this point, and I encourage the House to take decisive action to make Illinois a national leader in equity and criminal justice reform.
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) May 30, 2019
The Senate passed the bill in a 38 to 17 vote, sending it to the House.
You can see a video of the Illinois Senate committee presenting arguments and deciding the future of legal marijuana:
Along with a video of the committee voting on the bill to legalize recreational marijuana in the state:
If it does go through, the state’s legal marijuana program would take effect on January 1, 2020.
