[Mpls] Minnesotans favor medical marijuana two-to-one

[Jim Bernstein]

With this polling data in hand, you ought to take to take your case to
the Minnesota Legislature and persuade them to enact or enable the
sale/distribution of medicinal marijuana by statute. That is where the
decision rightfully belongs.  It most certainly, clearly, absolutely
does not belong in the Minneapolis City Charter!

Jim Bernstein
Fulton 

    
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From: mpls-bounces at mnforum.org [mailto:mpls-bounces at mnforum.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Samuels
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 3:12 PM
To: mpls at mnforum.org
Subject: [Mpls] Minnesotans favor medical marijuana two-to-one

 

To my surprise, I haven't seen anything in the papers about this. The
Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) released the results of a Zogby poll on
Thursday showing that 60% of Minnesotans support medical marijuana. In
Minneapolis/St. Paul the number was 78.5%. Interestingly the response
was
even stronger when people were asked if qualified patients should be
allowed
to purchase medical marijuana legally from a nonprofit, regulated
dispensary. 78.7% of respondents statewide answered yes to that
question,
including a whopping 90.4% in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

 

Taken at face value, that means nine out of ten people in Minneapolis
agree
with the intent of the proposed charter amendment which was blocked from
the
ballot last August. Also, MPP released the results of this poll on the
same
day the Court of Appeals heard arguments about City Council's decision
block
that amendment from last November's ballot. A decision on that should
come
within 90 days. Full results of the poll can be seen at:
http://mpp.org/MN/2005mnpoll.pdf 

 

 

Jason Samuels

Whittier

Administrative Coordinator, Citizens Organized for Harm Reduction

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