Current Minnesota Legislature has bills for marijuana medical defense

HF 508 and its companion SF 733 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?f=SF733&y=2013&ssn=0&b=senate

Recent Minnesota Public Radio discussion regarding marijuana use

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/todays-question/archive/2013/04/what-limits-should-exist-on-marijuana-use.shtml

An interview with Harvard psychiatrist and author Dr. Lester Grinspoon

http://thejointblog.com/qa-with-dr-lester-grinspoon/#.UWZDwJBDvZh ,
Dr. Grinspoon maintains a web site chock full of wonderful resources at http://marijuana-uses.com/

Why are marijuana legalization efforts lag behind marriage equality?

A recent LA  Times article examines this question: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-marijuana-same-sex-marriage-20130404,0,7126278.story
Analysis to follow

Check if the MN House of Representatives introduced a new marijuana bill.

This link https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/status_result.php?body=House&search=basic&session=0882013&location=House&bill=&bill_type=bill&rev_number=&keyword_type=all&keyword=marijuana&keyword_field_text=1&submit_keyword=GO&titleword=   will show what current House Bills contain keyword 'marijuana'.
It is for the year 2013,  aka Legislative Session 88.
At the moment there are 17 bills and a medical marijuana legalization bill is not among them.  

Minnesota NORML Google Group

MnNORML (MORML?), the Minnesota affiliate of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, has a Google Group where you can follow and join discussions pertaining to legalizing marijuana in Minnesota at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/mnNORML

Informative article about legalizing marijuana in Minnesota

Katie Rucke wrote a thorough investigative article about legalizing marijuana in Minnesota:
http://www.mintpressnews.com/the-fight-to-legalize-marijuana-in-minnesota/
There is very little information available about this topic elsewhere.
Thank you Katie and keep up the good work!

March 2013 medical marijuana Minnesota residents survey

Here is the March 1-2 survey of 600 Minnesotans' attitudes towards legalizing medical marijuana, conducted on behalf of the Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org/states/minnesota/MinnesotaResults.pdf
Overall, 2/3 of Minnesotans support legalizing medical marijuana in the state.
The survey breaks down responses by age, gender, party affiliation, and region.
In every category, there are more supporters than opponents.
There are equal percentages of men and women who support legalization.
The democrats and the independents favor it more than the republicans.
The younger people also favor it more than the older groups.
Consider the 18-34 group:  an astounding 87% are in favor.

"Majority Now Supports Legalizing Marijuana" finds Pew Research Poll

"For the first time in more than four decades of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans favor legalizing the use of marijuana. A national survey finds that 52% say that the use of marijuana should be made legal while 45% say it should not."  
More here http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports-legalizing-marijuana/

Primary reason medical marijuana is still illegal in Minnesota.

Steph Sherer, Executive Director Americans for Safe Access, discusses in this video why medical marijuana is still illegal in many places.
(Spoiler at 2min 8sec : It is not a conspiracy!)

Dear Friends,

Please join our discussion about marijuana and its legalization in our great state.

Whatever your thoughts may be,  pro or con,  share them with us in a civil discourse.