Frustrated by the testimony given by a few of Delaware’s Compassion Centers opposed to the current text of the recreational cannabis bill, some Cannabis advocates are calling for medical marijuana patients to boycott the businesses.
Some of the concerns from these compassion centers include being worried about an oversupply in the market, such as what happened in Oregon and Colorado, and also asked for permission to sell recreational marijuana while the new permitting system gets set up.
Zoe Patchell is the director of the Delaware Cannabis Advocacy Network. She says work has been underway on this bill and similar bills for years.
“This was a complete surprise for them to come out of the woodwork after our nearly a decade — well documented fight for cannabis legalization," she says.
Patchell says there've been many opportunities for the medical compassion centers to voice their thoughts on recreational legalization, and to hear it now only hurts the effort to get the drug legalized in the First State.