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04/19/2015 - 20:19
MN NORML returns to the Minnesota State Capitol ** for our 2nd annual rally for full legalization of cannabis in Minnesota. ++ Please join...
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Until Wednesday, the marijuana debate at the Minnesota Capitol had largely centered on legalizing cannabis for medical use. Now, Minnesotans who favor full legalization are raising their voices. Hundreds of supporters gathered in the rotunda for the "Yes We Cannabis" rally to urge lawmakers to legalize marijuana for responsible personal use. Click for slideshow.
The battle for the full legalization of marijuana is front and center at the Minnesota State Capitol on Wednesday. The Rally at the Rotunda featured several speakers, including Neill Franklin, Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), Minnesota State Rep. Rena Moran, Jim Northrup, Native American Poet/Author and others. The MN NORML rally focused on racial disparities, for-profit policing, the prison industrial complex, dishonorable discharges of military personnel for cannabis use, and the medical benefits of the plant.
After saying that “prohibition has failed,” Moran declared, “So I say let’s legalize marijuana.”
"Lawmakers are debating a bill that would legalize marijuana for medical purposes, but members of Minnesota’s Chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws are pushing a much broader effort – full legalization of marijuana. No bills have been introduced this session to legalize marijuana but Rep. Rena Moran, DFL-St. Paul, told the rally she supports it to increase state revenue and reduce arrests for possession. 'Let’s create a system right here at this Capitol where we can tax, where we can regulate the sales and increase the revenue at the state of Minnesota so we can invest more wisely in all of us.'"
The issue of medical marijuana needs more serious consideration than our governor seems to be giving it. Several parents of children with medical issues that they say would benefit from medical marijuana were stunned this week when Governor Mark Dayton suggested they might be the barrier to legislation since they they say don't accept his proposal to study the health benefits first. One mother even said the governor suggested she buy the drug on the street from illegal drug dealers, or buy it in another state where it's legal and bring it into the state (a federal offense).
VIDEO: A mother who met with Gov. Mark Dayton earlier this month says he told her to buy marijuana illegally to treat her 2-year-old son's intractable epilepsy.... Dayton spokesman Matt Swenson said the governor doesn't advocate breaking the law. Later, Swenson said Dayton spoke with the woman in private but wouldn't say whether her claim was true.
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