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« Reply #500 on: April 25, 2023, 12:47:51 PM »

Updated map has been stickied.
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« Reply #501 on: April 25, 2023, 12:55:34 PM »

Minnesota is arguably closer to purple than yellow, although it'll be green in a couple weeks anyway.
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« Reply #502 on: April 25, 2023, 02:56:07 PM »

Minnesota House passes bill 71-59: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-house-passes-recreational-marijuana-bill
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« Reply #503 on: April 28, 2023, 04:15:59 PM »

Minnesota Senate just passed the bill on a pure party-line vote.
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« Reply #504 on: April 30, 2023, 12:31:19 PM »

Minnesota Senate just passed the bill on a pure party-line vote.

Does it now go straight to Walz’s desk and he has made the appropriate assurances
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« Reply #505 on: April 30, 2023, 01:23:39 PM »

Minnesota Senate just passed the bill on a pure party-line vote.

Does it now go straight to Walz’s desk and he has made the appropriate assurances
Both bills have to go to a conference committee first to create a reconciled bill and be passed by both chambers again. Then that bill goes to Walz.
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« Reply #506 on: April 30, 2023, 02:35:11 PM »

Minnesota Senate just passed the bill on a pure party-line vote.

Does it now go straight to Walz’s desk and he has made the appropriate assurances
Both bills have to go to a conference committee first to create a reconciled bill and be passed by both chambers again. Then that bill goes to Walz.

Hopefully it gets done on time.
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« Reply #507 on: April 30, 2023, 02:42:07 PM »

Minnesota Senate just passed the bill on a pure party-line vote.

Does it now go straight to Walz’s desk and he has made the appropriate assurances
Both bills have to go to a conference committee first to create a reconciled bill and be passed by both chambers again. Then that bill goes to Walz.

Hopefully it gets done on time.
No reason it won't, they still got three weeks and there's no amendments or unlimited debate allowed on the next votes.
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« Reply #508 on: May 02, 2023, 08:30:15 PM »

A-hole move by the WI GOP! 😒

Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Strip Marijuana Legalization From Governor’s Budget In Joint Hearing

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/wisconsin-gop-lawmakers-strip-marijuana-legalization-from-governors-budget-in-joint-hearing/
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« Reply #509 on: May 03, 2023, 02:10:58 PM »

A-hole move by the WI GOP! 😒

Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Strip Marijuana Legalization From Governor’s Budget In Joint Hearing

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/wisconsin-gop-lawmakers-strip-marijuana-legalization-from-governors-budget-in-joint-hearing/

They refuse to even allow medical, there's no way they're allowing anything else to happen. So we're surrounded and they're mad about that, they're going to start trying to get the state patrol to start cracking down is my guess.
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« Reply #510 on: May 18, 2023, 10:48:10 PM »

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« Reply #511 on: May 19, 2023, 10:04:21 AM »


6? I heard 5.
Pat Garofalo (R-Farmington)
Shane Hudella (R-Hastings)
Patty Mueller (R-Austin)
Roger Skraba (R-Ely)
Nolan West (R-Blaine)

Who was the sixth?
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« Reply #512 on: May 19, 2023, 04:12:51 PM »

Skraba is interesting because he was the Republican State Rep with the narrowest margin of victory. He only won by 15 votes. However he represents a very ancestrally D Obama-Trump district.

So just goes to show that really opposition doesn't play well in any district aside from the most conservative districts.

Of course from his partner district Zeleznikar voted no, and she won by only 33 votes in a far more D seat, and one that's almost certainly a DFL pickup in 2024. Amusingly she possibly only won because the previous D incumbent (who was absolutely ancient, like closer to Diane Feinstein than Biden in age) voted against legalizing marijuana in 2021 and pissed off a lot of the Democrats who also saw her as out of touch with her age and everything. But she would've likely gotten those 33 votes had she voted for weed. Although maybe she's just going to vote like a super-conservative because she's doomed anyway.
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« Reply #513 on: May 19, 2023, 05:17:08 PM »

It was only 5 Rep for.

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« Reply #514 on: May 20, 2023, 01:26:10 PM »

A-hole move by the WI GOP! 😒

Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Strip Marijuana Legalization From Governor’s Budget In Joint Hearing

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/wisconsin-gop-lawmakers-strip-marijuana-legalization-from-governors-budget-in-joint-hearing/

They refuse to even allow medical, there's no way they're allowing anything else to happen. So we're surrounded and they're mad about that, they're going to start trying to get the state patrol to start cracking down is my guess.

Wisconsin doesn't have a referendum option, does it? Rather amazing considering it was in so many ways the Wellspring of the Progressive Movement.
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« Reply #515 on: May 20, 2023, 04:11:45 PM »

A-hole move by the WI GOP! 😒

Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Strip Marijuana Legalization From Governor’s Budget In Joint Hearing

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/wisconsin-gop-lawmakers-strip-marijuana-legalization-from-governors-budget-in-joint-hearing/

They refuse to even allow medical, there's no way they're allowing anything else to happen. So we're surrounded and they're mad about that, they're going to start trying to get the state patrol to start cracking down is my guess.

Wisconsin doesn't have a referendum option, does it? Rather amazing considering it was in so many ways the Wellspring of the Progressive Movement.

Historically it wasn’t needed and if tried right now it would get stopped so fast. They already changed the rules to slow down the school referendums that kept passing while they try and ruining their anti-education plans.
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« Reply #516 on: May 22, 2023, 10:28:29 PM »

So proud of Minnesota!

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« Reply #517 on: May 30, 2023, 12:45:41 PM »
« Edited: May 30, 2023, 12:58:19 PM by Gass3268 »

A-hole move by the WI GOP! 😒

Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Strip Marijuana Legalization From Governor’s Budget In Joint Hearing

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/wisconsin-gop-lawmakers-strip-marijuana-legalization-from-governors-budget-in-joint-hearing/

They refuse to even allow medical, there's no way they're allowing anything else to happen. So we're surrounded and they're mad about that, they're going to start trying to get the state patrol to start cracking down is my guess.

Wisconsin doesn't have a referendum option, does it? Rather amazing considering it was in so many ways the Wellspring of the Progressive Movement.

It was put forward to a vote in 1914 and it failed with no getting 64% of the vote.
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« Reply #518 on: May 30, 2023, 12:46:27 PM »

I wonder if you could do legalization or at the very least decriminalization via the new liberal Supreme Court majority.
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« Reply #519 on: May 30, 2023, 01:03:57 PM »

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« Reply #520 on: May 30, 2023, 01:11:56 PM »



Haha Jesse Ventura!
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« Reply #521 on: July 28, 2023, 02:26:46 AM »

Signature gatherers fell just short in Ohio, however:
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A proposal to legalize adult use of marijuana in Ohio narrowly fell short Tuesday of the signatures it needed to make the fall statewide ballot. Backers will have 10 days, or until Aug. 4, to gather more.

Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose determined the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol was short by just 679 signatures of the 124,046 signatures required to put the question before voters on Nov. 7.

679 short. Wow. Unamused

A new poll indicates strong support too:
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The USA TODAY Network/Suffolk University survey, published on Wednesday, found that about 59 percent of Ohioans support legalizing the possession and sale of cannabis for adults 21 and older. Just 35 percent are opposed.

Democrats were the most supportive of the policy change, at 77 percent, followed by independents, 63 percent of whom are on board. Among Republicans, however, just 40 percent back legalizing cannabis.

There was also majority support among voters in every age group, except for those over 65.
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« Reply #522 on: July 28, 2023, 09:26:26 AM »

Were they trying to get it in before the possible passage of the 60% threshold amendment, or was there some other reason they wanted it on the ballot of a low-turnout off-year election where the least supportive demographic would make up a larger share of the electorate?

Granted it might have still passed, but still.
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« Reply #523 on: July 28, 2023, 09:51:19 AM »

Were they trying to get it in before the possible passage of the 60% threshold amendment, or was there some other reason they wanted it on the ballot of a low-turnout off-year election where the least supportive demographic would make up a larger share of the electorate?

Granted it might have still passed, but still.

If successfully cured, the initiative would be on the same ballot as the abortion question - not a bad place to be for a reformist measure.
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« Reply #524 on: July 29, 2023, 04:27:09 PM »

Were they trying to get it in before the possible passage of the 60% threshold amendment, or was there some other reason they wanted it on the ballot of a low-turnout off-year election where the least supportive demographic would make up a larger share of the electorate?

Granted it might have still passed, but still.

Based on what I read, Ohio has a more complicated process for initiated statutes (one of the steps involves the Legislature getting a chance to act on the proposed legislation). The original goal was to put it on the ballot last year, but there were some legal issues and the two sides (the state and the pro-marijuana group) came to a settlement that allowed them to continue the process this year rather than start over from scratch.

The 60% threshold amendment applies to constitutional amendments, not statutes or veto referendums. The organizers simply want to legalize marijuana in the state as soon as they can. (It also seems to be in a prime location for a lot of out-of-state business. Ohio and Michigan are fairly unique in terms of being states in the eastern part of the country with a robust process for citizen-based initiatives.)

The low-hanging fruit is really running out on this issue. In terms of bypassing a legislature that refuses to act, you're left with these states plus Florida. Florida is unique in allowing only constitutional amendments on the ballot (whether it be legislative-referred or citizen-initiated, but nothing else), which as we all know requires a 60% supermajority. Of course, the additional problem with Florida is that the state AG is fighting hard to prevent it from even reaching the ballot and, so far, the DeSantis Court is happy to go along with her.
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