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Dean Phillips on Drugs |
Despite bipartisan, majority citizen support for legalization, Minnesota has some of the strictest cannabis policies in the nation. H.F. 600 would allow adults to grow and consume cannabis in a responsible fashion while ensuring that law enforcement has the tools necessary to meet new challenges. Further, the legislation would expunge non-violent cannabis offenses from Minnesotans' criminal records and invest revenues from cannabis taxation into the communities that were disproportionately impacted by the failed War on Drugs.
"Laws prohibiting recreational marijuana use defy both common sense and the will of the people," said Phillips. "It is absurd that a country built on the principles of freedom and liberty would ever criminalize the consumption of a plant."