Is it time for Rhode Island to legalize adult recreational marijuana use?

PBN Staff

November 27, 2020 6:15 am

Screen Shot 2020-07-20 at 1.02.42 PM — A PANDEMIC-INDUCED RECESSION has Statehouse Democratic leaders who control both chambers ready to consider legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults. / AP FILE PHOTO/JUILIO CORTEZ

A year ago, Statehouse Democratic leaders made it clear weeks before lawmakers opened the 2020 legislative session that they were not ready to support legalizing adult recreational marijuana use. This was welcome news to local business groups that have long opposed the move. But a pandemic-induced recession has changed the minds of many of those…