A year ago on this day, a neighbor passed. It was a gallant fight with death. He did the regimen associated with brain cancer. He won round one, but round two was a bitch. He opted not to walk down the same path again.

He took to smoking marijuana. It was an illegal act, but it provided comfort. I supported the choice and backed his play. West Virginia adopted a law for medical marijuana in 2017.

Saying, not preaching, but Republicans have a natural bend of dragging their feet on things they do not support sometime. The thought being that we need to make sure that not one person that we cannot verify gets some pot they don’t deserve, mostly because they think smoking pot results in liberal notions, promiscuous sex, disdain for bologna and longhorn cheese sandwiches, and just because they can.

Visit the site to see where the Office of Medical Cannabis stands going on 4 years of passage of the law. The delay seems to be on how to benefit out-of-state interests, which seems a historical standard for West Virginia. #LegalizePotWV