It could be a few weeks before the Alabama House of Representatives takes up two of the most ambitious and controversial pieces of legislation in the 2021 regular session.

House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia, said recently bills authorizing medical marijuana and establishing a lottery and gambling won’t come up for a vote in the chamber for a few weeks. The medical marijuana bill may not go to the floor until the last week of the session, expected in mid-May…

As of Monday morning, neither bill had appeared on House committee agendas for the week.

The gambling bill got transmitted to the House late last week after passing the Senate on Tuesday evening.