A Minnesota Senate committee this week heard testimony on an adult-use hashish legalization proposal – the primary time any of the chamber’s committees have taken up a legalization measure, KARE11 reviews. The bill, proposed by Sen. Lindsey Port (D), would permit retail hashish gross sales and consists of expungement provisions.
Comparable variations of the invoice have handed the state Home up to now however have by no means been taken up by the Senate – each chambers had been underneath Republican management, however Democrats received majorities in each the Home and Senate final November.
Through the Public Security Committee listening to, Port indicated the invoice “could have 18 committee stops” earlier than making it to the ground for a vote. A companion model within the Home earlier this month handed the chamber’s Commerce Finance and Coverage Committee.
The measure was opposed through the listening to by the Minnesota Sheriffs’ Affiliation and the Minnesota Trucking Affiliation. Each organizations delivered opposition testimony throughout different committee hearings on the measure.
On a voice vote, the committee handed the invoice with out suggestion, however expects to listen to extra on the invoice sooner or later as it really works its method via the legislative course of.
In keeping with a Marijuana Moment report, the Home model this week additionally handed the Home Labor and Business Finance and Coverage Committee – the fourth committee it cleared within the chamber – and the Senate model handed the Commerce and Shopper Safety Committee.
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