Legislative look ahead + cannabis vs. marijuana
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| | Gun restrictions, aid-in-dying bill among others arrive at legislative crossroads this week |
Minnesota lawmakers are on course to surpass 10,000 bills submitted since this two-year run of the Legislature began, setting a record for the most proposals offered up in that cycle.
Most of them will fall by the wayside this week as a Friday deadline funnels out policy proposals that haven’t been teed up for a floor vote in time.
“I think on Monday, we’re gonna cross 5,000 bills introduced into the House, and of those 5,000, there are probably 4,500 that I would not want to make deadline and they won’t,” Rep. Zack Stephenson, DFL-Coon Rapids, joked last week. | |
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| | Marijuana, cannabis, hemp: Why Minnesota is choosing its words carefully |
When the state of Minnesota legalized adult-use cannabis last year, legislators made a subtle change to the books: they struck most mentions of “marijuana” and swapped it out for “cannabis.”
Amid the slew of changes coming with legalization — expunging criminal records, setting up a licensing, staffing up the Office of Cannabis Management after a botched appointment — the language change is small. But it’s become common practice across the country as more states legalize it.
Before 1900 or so, most medical reports and studies in the U.S called it cannabis, the scientific name. But, around the turn of the century, many newspapers and politicians started calling it “marijuana,” the Spanish word for the plant. | |
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