A bill to legalize marijuana in Minnesota might have died in the legislature this session, but a newly released poll conducted by lawmakers shows voters are increasingly ready for the reform. Fifty-eight percent of respondents for the 2021 House of Representatives State Fair Poll said they favor legalizing cannabis for adult use. That’s a modest increase compared to the chamber’s 2019 survey, which showed 56 percent support. A bill to legalize marijuana in Minnesota might have died in the legislature this session, but a newly released poll conducted by lawmakers shows voters are increasingly ready for the reform. Fifty-eight percent of respondents for the 2021 House of Representatives State Fair Poll said they favor legalizing cannabis for adult use. That’s a modest increase compared to the chamber’s 2019 survey, which showed 56 percent support. While the poll is non-scientific in that it didn’t use random sampling, it did have a very large sample size of about 5,200 State Fair attendees. And of the 12 questions on various policy proposals, marijuana legalization proved to be more popular than almost every other issue, with more people backing the reform than supporting proposals such as legalizing sports gambling, allowing to-go alcoholic beverages, imposing a mask mandate at schools, instituting automatic voter registration and banning flavored tobacco products. The Democratic-led House of Representatives approved a bill to legalize adult-use cannabis in the state this year, but it later died in the GOP-controlled Senate.
Kyle Jaeger, Marijuana Moment, 09/08/2021 12:51:00