ST. PAUL, Minn. – An influential Republican says an amendment he put on a Minnesota House bill to legalize recreational marijuana increases the possibility of it being signed into law this year.
The measure passed the House Taxes Committee Wednesday. The amendment requires all extra tax revenue from legalized cannabis sales go into a tax relief account. G-O-P Representative Pat Garofalo of Farmington said, “it’s a really strong movement in a direction that I think conservatives like — that we’re not really interested in seeing marijuana legalized for the purposes of growing government and spending more money.”
Garofalo says if they continue to improve the bill there could be a strong vote for it in the House — possibly changing some conservatives’ minds in the GOP-controlled Minnesota Senate.
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