Rep. Scott Fetgatter, R-Okmulgee, sponsored the bill when it came up for discussion on the House floor last week. He is also a member of the medical marijuana working group.

As his House counterparts had done, McCortney cautioned the committee that the bill remains a work in progress. He said he thinks the Legislature “will spend the next many years perfecting not only this bill but this system in the state of Oklahoma.”

“We went out of our way to keep that language intact, so it is very obvious we are not changing SQ 788 at all,” he said. “We are only beefing up the language on top of it to make it much more like the bills we spent the morning passing in our chamber.”