One Million Minnesotans For Cannabis Legalization!
Minnesota State Senate
Tell Minnesota state legislators to let the people vote on cannabis!
Representative Jeremy Munson, Republican (23B) did a poll on HF600 (full legalization bill) and presented the results from the first 1,000 respondents. Nearly all Republican and mostly female (60%) responses spread evenly across all age groups show:
✔️ 97% support for medical cannabis program, with 72% wanting to expand this to include the flower (instead of just the oil).
✔️ 69% would vote for recreational marijuana
✔️ 53% to 57% split on allowing employers to not hire cannabis user
In addition, House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler also stated:
"According to the federal Department of Health and Human Services, 15.9% of adults or 680,000+ Minnesota adults have used cannabis in the past year. The lack of regulation of this industry has not worked:
While there is a small disparity in the rate of usage between Caucasians and African-Americans (2013 ACLU Study), there is a large disparity in cannabis arrests - African Americans represent only 5% of the population, but 31% of the cannabis possession arrests.
September of 2019 saw the highest number of E.R. visits linked to vaping (most from additives in unregulated vaping products).
No ID checks – 66% of tenth graders across the country reported that cannabis is “very easy” or “fairly easy” to access.
No dosage restrictions or labeling on cannabis products.
It is hard to access for veterans – the VA cannot prescribe it and instead prescribe opioids at alarming rates. Between 2010 and 2015, the number of veterans addicted to opioids increased by 55 percent to nearly 70,000.
Law enforcement made 8,752 arrests for cannabis in 2018. Legalizing cannabis can reduce law enforcement time and resources spent on cannabis offenses – saving tens of millions of dollars."
It's apparent to Minnesotans that the legalization of Marijuana is a bipartisan issue that is an immediate concern for more Minnesotans than not.
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Representative Jeremy Munson, Republican (23B) did a poll on HF600 (full legalization bill) and presented the results from the first 1,000 respondents. Nearly all Republican and mostly female (60%) responses spread evenly across all age groups show:
✔️ 97% support for medical cannabis program, with 72% wanting to expand this to include the flower (instead of just the oil).
✔️ 69% would vote for recreational marijuana
✔️ 53% to 57% split on allowing employers to not hire cannabis user
In addition, House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler also stated:
"According to the federal Department of Health and Human Services, 15.9% of adults or 680,000+ Minnesota adults have used cannabis in the past year. The lack of regulation of this industry has not worked:
While there is a small disparity in the rate of usage between Caucasians and African-Americans (2013 ACLU Study), there is a large disparity in cannabis arrests - African Americans represent only 5% of the population, but 31% of the cannabis possession arrests.
September of 2019 saw the highest number of E.R. visits linked to vaping (most from additives in unregulated vaping products).
No ID checks – 66% of tenth graders across the country reported that cannabis is “very easy” or “fairly easy” to access.
No dosage restrictions or labeling on cannabis products.
It is hard to access for veterans – the VA cannot prescribe it and instead prescribe opioids at alarming rates. Between 2010 and 2015, the number of veterans addicted to opioids increased by 55 percent to nearly 70,000.
Law enforcement made 8,752 arrests for cannabis in 2018. Legalizing cannabis can reduce law enforcement time and resources spent on cannabis offenses – saving tens of millions of dollars."
It's apparent to Minnesotans that the legalization of Marijuana is a bipartisan issue that is an immediate concern for more Minnesotans than not.