Lancaster County District Court rules decision to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska should stand

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BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, BILL, THANKS FOR THAT. AND SOME FAMILIES, THOUGH ARE CELEBRATING TONIGHT. THEY SAY IT’S LIKELY THEY WILL SEE SOME HEALTH BENEFITS FROM MEDICAL MARIJUANA. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S ERIN HAGERTY MET WITH PARENTS IN BELLEVUE THIS EVENING. ERIN. YEAH. ROB. JULIE. THAT COUPLE SAYS IT’S BEEN 11 YEARS SINCE THEY FIRST WENT TO STATE SENATORS TO PUSH FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA. THAT THEIR SON MIGHT BENEFIT FROM. THEY CONSIDERED MOVING DURING THAT TIME, BUT NOW THEY’RE CLOSE TO HAVING ACCESS IN NEBRASKA. NOW 22, WILL GILLON WAS JUST 11 WHEN HIS PARENTS, SHELLEY AND DOMINIC, FIRST STARTED PUSHING NEBRASKA LAWMAKERS TO ALLOW MEDICAL MARIJUANA. SINCE THEN, WE’VE HAD A LOT OF CRUSHING LOSSES IN THIS, FROM THE FIRST MEDICAL MARIJUANA PETITION BEING REMOVED ON A TECHNICALITY IN 2020 TO BILLS NARROWLY FAILING. BUT TONIGHT, A MAJOR HURDLE WAS CLEARED. I WAS ECSTATIC. WILL LIVES WITH LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME. HIS PARENTS SAY HE HAS DAILY SEIZURES AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AT THE LEVEL OF A 1 OR 2 YEAR OLD. IF ANYTHING, MAYBE IT COULD HELP LESSEN SOME OF THE SEIZURES AND MAYBE IT COULD ALSO HELP WITH CALMING HIS BEHAVIORS AS WELL. WILL IS NONVERBAL. THEY ALSO HOPE IT COULD HELP WITH HIS ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE. LATELY, THEY’VE BEEN WORKING ON USING THESE CARDS AS CUES. WE’VE ALWAYS FROM THE BEGINNING, WANTED TO JUST HAVE OUR DOCTORS BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT AS AN OPTION, TO BE ABLE TO TRY. BALLOT INITIATIVE SPONSOR ADAM MORFELD TOLD ME HE’S ELATED AS THE COURT SAID IT WAS ABOUT NUMBERS AND AT EVERY POINT IN THE CASE, THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CAME UP SHORT AND THEY DECIDED TO BRING THIS CASE, DESPITE KNOWING THAT THEY WERE GOING TO SHOW SHORT. IT’S UNFORTUNATE THAT THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL USED THE POWER OF THEIR OFFICES TO TRY TO QUITE FRANKLY, GET IN THE WAY OF THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. DOMINIC SAYS THE FACT THAT THE CASE WAS BROUGHT HAS BEEN STRESSING TO VOLUNTEERS. WE’RE HOPING VERY MUCH THAT THEY CAN GET SOME PEACE NOW AND KNOW THAT THE GOOD WORK THAT THEY DID, AND ALL THE WORK THAT THEY PUT IN HASN’T BEEN FOR NAUGHT, AND THAT THEY’RE GOING TO THERE’S A REWARD FOR IT FOR ALL OF US. FORMER STATE SENATOR AND ANTI-MARIJUANA ADVOCATE JOHN KEANE SAYS HE EXPECTS TO APPEAL THE RULING. THE SECRETAR

“]] The court released its judgment in a trial Tuesday afternoon, dismissing the case.  Read More  

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