"The reality is people today are using cannabis because it's illegal. We're enabling the black markets. The drug dealers, gangs and others are being enabled by the fact that we've made this product illegal," he said. "And you look to the message that many of us Republicans have said, for many years now, which is we need to look creatively at how we broaden our tax base, how we look for opportunities to provide tax relief to middle-class Illinois taxpayers."