Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now! Party | |
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Abbreviation | LMN |
Chairperson | Dennis Schuller |
Founded | 1998 |
Preceded by | Independent Grassroots Party |
Headquarters | Minneapolis |
Newspaper | Freedom Gazette |
Ideology | Marijuana legalization |
Colors | Green, Gold, Red |
State Senate | 0 / 67 |
State House | 0 / 134 |
U.S. Senate | 0 / 2 |
U.S. House | 0 / 8 |
Website | |
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Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now! is a political third party in the U.S. state of Minnesota established in 1998 to oppose drug prohibition.[1][2] They are formally recognized as a minor party.[3]
Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now! became a major party in Minnesota in 2018 when their candidate for State Auditor, Michael Ford, received 5.3 percent of the vote.[4] During the 2010s the party began expansion attempts to other states, continuing during the 2020s, as the Legal Marijuana Now Party. They lost their major party status in a 2024 case with the Minnesota Supreme Court.
In 2020, the Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now! nominee for United States Senator received 190,154 votes in the November 3 election, the largest number of votes received in 2020, in the U.S., by any such third-party candidate.[5] Democrats have stated that Legal Marijuana Now! candidates are detrimental to the Democratic Party.[6] An analysis of votes cast in the 2020 Minnesota elections found that Legal Marijuana Now! candidates might have helped Democratic candidates in swing districts, by pulling a greater number of votes from Republican candidates.[7]
Scholars have credited Legal Marijuana Now! with motivating the Minnesota Democratic Party to prioritize cannabis legalization, in 2023.[8][9]
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