Minnesota Senate approves amended cannabis legalization bill by 1 vote
Minnesota Senate approves amended cannabis legalization bill by 1 vote
The measure will now go to a conference committee to iron out differences.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/mn-senate-marijuana-legal-cannabis-vote/89-57fe94e8-37b0-4e11-a007-c5f5725128f3
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Republicans love to put people in prison for smoking weed. This bill only has the support of Democrats while Republicans are trying to block it as usual.
_"“In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."_
*- Francis Young (DEA Administrative Law Judge – 1988])*
_"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use…”_
*- Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)*
_“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”_
*- Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)*
_"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."_
_“The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”_
*- William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author & commentator)*
_"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."_
*- Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobilologist, author & science communicator)*
_“You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it.”_ ….when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
*- Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)*
_"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."_
*- Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)*
_"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I’ll prove it to you. You’re at a ball game or a concert, and someone’s really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"_
_“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn’t be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can’t make a profit off it, would it?”_
_“…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit … unnatural?”_
*-Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)*
_"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on."_
*- Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)*
Crooked politicians not ready for Mother Nature medicinal plants but they have been killing people in masses for hundreds of years with man made addicted synthetic drugs from their superior pharmaceutical boss’s 😮😮
It’s like Dave is at your door. Dave?
"An addiction for profit industry"……like the Crack Era and how all those addicts funded a War.
She has to know what Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Casinos do to people and the profits they’re bringing in.
This is less about giving the people what they want and more about opening up another *Taxable* market.
I oppose all drugs to include marijuana. Now people be able to drive high. Minnesota’s a disgrace if they allow this to pass
Democrats are living bad examples for youth
"I don’t think it is at all proper for state tax payer dollars to be used to prop up an addiction-for-profit industry."
Well Karen, I don’t think it’s proper for my tax payer dollars to be spent incarcerating people with minor pocession charges for a drug that should be legal.
Blah blah blah Mn isn’t ready blah blah blah wah wah wah
These people are domestic terrorists. Plain and simple.
You are no different than the Taliban if you want to limit other people’s freedom.
Im completely conservative and I want federally legal weed 🎉 for everyone no matter what
Serious question: how is the state “propping up” the industry?
🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
The governor still hasn’t signed it he needs to get off his ass and go ahead & it he said he would sign it if it got passed and they got passed through the house and senate why ain’t his damn signature on the bill
Congratulations Minnesota. Unfortunately, TN will be one of the last hold outs. So silly.
Yes! The time is now
Think about how much money this is going to bring in a tax revenue. Hopefully we can get a roads fixed.
lol the people talking against it are so out of touch with reality in their country and the world it’s hilarious they get paid to have any influence over anything
I’ve smoked pot for 40 years and moved out of Minnesota so I don’t give the cops the satisfaction of putting me in the system. Repunicants don’t think we can handle it huh? I bet he went home and burned one.
Hurry up
We just need to vote these backwoods republicans out of office. They claim to be for small government, but they want to rule every choice we have.
Republicans are only good for people that can’t or don’t want to think for themselves.
GO MINNESOTA! LEGALIZE! A greater FUTURE! A greater day!
Carla Nelson is an idiot
I don’t smoke marijuana anymore…haven’t in over 20 years, and still wouldn’t even if it was legal, but I fully support legalization.
Good Job Minnesota law givers…..the woman who is so concerned about government propping up a for profit industry should first think about alcohol and tobacco. Hypocrisy and idiocy due to ignorance and fear.
Hears a great analogy…..how many fights have you seen break out when individuals are under the influence of hooch?
How many have you seen while under a buzz?
That my friends is the telling tale:)
Damn, by just 1 vote???? Thank God for that sane person. Look @ all the good legalizing has done for the State of Arizona.
This MN legislature has more important issues to deal with that legalization of cannabis. The state has an $18 billion dollar surplus yet the state still taxes Social Security income. Social Security was created to support individuals in retirement. It was not created to support government. It is time to pass HF300 bill and exempt Social Security income from income taxes for everyone.
About Time.! And im moRe ReP then DeM……….! Ive used it for 30+ Year’s………..
Addiction? How about that cow curbs her own sugar addiction before commenting on a non physically addictive substance she clearly has ABSOLUTELY no business attempting to explain.
Who needs 5 lbs at home?😂
"addiction for profit"
*shakes my head while dragging a cig and sipping booze*
❤❤❤❤👣🦅 🪶 RIGHT ON 👍🏼😁👍🏼
Took long enough wow. Maybe the nanny state will finally loosen the shackles on the citizens a click. Just can’t imagine how lame they will be going about it. Meanwhile in other parts of the country it’s being grown like like corn. Not sure if the local law enforcement even has a clue because they stopped me in a Colorado vehicle and questioned me about pot. It’s like hey bud I think the weed moved down to Oklahoma about 5 years ago but just out here making a Home Depot run hoss it’s not 2001 anymore weed shouldn’t even be talked about by those tyrants.
WHOOOO!!!!! LEGALIZE IT DUDE!!!!!
I like how they always backtrack Cannabis for being dangerous when the consequences for alcohol can be much worse.
Everyone one of them who voted against it, hate the idea of freedom
Wyoming going to be last…..
OUTRAGEOUS AND PARTISAN. NEXT UP FOR THE DEMOCRATS: DECRIMINALIZING SEX WITH MINORS AND LAND REPATRIATION FROM WHITE FARMERS!!
First the rainbow and now the weed. Smh
To me it look like Republicans that I saw speak during the time I was able to watch the live feed. They all were reading off a script. Even in this video that first Republican woman stuttered then look down at something before continuing
Wow fired up
I’ve never done it, and I won’t date anyone who does, but a lot of people do. I say legalize it and tax it. I don’t see it as any different than alcohol.
Dabbing cannabis is safer & more exhilarating than bud but you need a torch lighter & dabstraw. Here in Battle Creek, MI 10 grams of good concentrate goes for $70 otd but most places are around $200 otd. A disabled vet like myself can use 20 grams a month to replace opiod drugs like fentanyl & still be active, lose weight. etc at 67, nevertheless Im still homeless as I’m in a racewar for complaining the pot shops just play rap in undue deference to the black man agenda. Malcolm X started preaching up the road in Lansing how evil I am long ago & black man enjoys torturing me anyway & killing my girlfriends in car wrecks. All courtesy corrupt cops of course.
If the Republican woman is concerned with addiction, she should ban alcohol and tobacco!
Shame on the lies! – Addiction involves withdrawal symptoms that are so severe, they compel continuous use to be avoided. Cannabis doesn’t have them so is NOT addictive. That’s one of the many things consumers like about it.
We will not support an addiction for profit bill", alcohol and cigs are legal lady 😂😂😂😂😂
She said Addiction. 😂😂😂😂😂 GTFOHWTBS
Wow
Those conservatives are dumb
Legalized It
Republicans be trying to treat us like kids as if we can’t make grown ass decisions lol they really said some “they are not ready”, well who tf is not ready huh? The republicans ? Smh dumb asf lol