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Committee moves cannabis bill to protect medical patients' access, add injunctive relief and housing safeguards
Summary
The Judiciary committee advanced House File 1,672 after testimony that the Office of Cannabis Management's policy bill would preserve tribal and visiting-patient reciprocity, allow injunctive relief for registry members, raise fines for violations and include limited housing and school protections for medical cannabis patients.
The Minnesota House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee voted to re-refer House File 1,672 to the Commerce Finance and Policy Committee on April 2 after hearing testimony from the Office of Cannabis Management and lawmakers about changes to the state's medical cannabis protections.
Representative Ryar presented the bill as a policy package from the Office of Cannabis Management that "makes a number of changes to make the program work better for medical cannabis patients and providers," including reciprocity for out-of-state and tribal medical patients and protections carried forward from Chapter 152 into the state's new cannabis licensing framework.
Eric Taubel, interim director of the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management, told the committee that the section of the bill in the Judiciary Committee (Section 9) carries forward tribal protections and adds new protections for registered patients. "There's some protections laid out there, that ensure that…
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