[jfengel]

Bills like that tend to get dumped into a committee and ignored. They don't make it out to the full House for a vote.

So it's entirely for show, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. It's intended to shift the Overton window: "A few years ago we couldn't even have introduced this. Now we have, and now it's something people can talk about. So we'll introduce it again next year, and more people will start to talk about it, until they start to demand it."

So this news story is the most they're going to get out of this... but they did get that. It's now in front of people. And now maybe just legalizing some drugs will seem more feasible.