Minnesota Investing $15 Million a Year to Those ‘Harmed by Marijuana Prohibition’
Reparations all the things!!
Look, I’m all for legalized marijuana, but reparations? My goodness.
Starting the fiscal year 2026, Minnesota will give $15 million to those who have been harmed by marijuana prohibition through the “CanRenew” grant program.
The “CanRenew” grant program tucked in Minnesota’s expansive new recreational marijuana law was largely overlooked during discussions at the State Capitol earlier this year. Starting in fiscal year 2026, the program will award $15 million a year to eligible organizations in communities that have high concentrations of people who were convicted for a marijuana offense or had family members who were convicted.
Communities with large veteran populations, high poverty rates or that have been determined to have “experienced a disproportionately large amount of cannabis enforcement” will also be eligible for the funding, according to the law.
Port claimed the money would come from marijuana sales. Minnesota has a 10% tax on those sales.
“This is a form of reparation,” declared Port. “Direct harm has been done to communities by prohibition and by the state, and it is our responsibility to undo that harm. This is really our first major investment in doing that, and it should have the same kind of lasting effects that, unfortunately, the war on drugs has had on communities of color.”
Reparations all the things!!
Port isn’t lying. The stupid war on drugs has affected minority communities more.
Then again, the drug business is really the only form of capitalism they can engage in because the government likes to keep them on welfare and dependent on Daddy Government. But that’s another story!
But if politicians paid attention, which likely won’t happen, they would know it’s not marijuana at the heart of the drug war.
The people on the streets aren’t smoking weed. They smoke weed if they cannot get what they really want: heroin, meth, or cocaine.
Watch The Wire. It is the most realistic show I’ve watched and also my favorite. (Also watch Homicide: Life on the Street. It’s not streaming anywhere, but you can find clips online…or just buy the DVDs. You won’t regret it.)
The Office of Cannabis Management will determine which community organizations will receive money from the grant. These include schools, nonprofits, private businesses, and local governments.
So I guess no money straight to the people? I guess not:
Organizations applying for the grants must propose a project or program designed to “improve community-wide outcomes or experiences,” including efforts to boost economic development, public health, violence prevention, youth development or civil legal aid, the law states.
“When we look at what is the most effective way the state can invest or disinvest in people, it is by investments we choose to make in communities,” Port said.
The government will “automatically expunge misdemeanor marijuana cases from residents’ records” and review felony cases with the Cannabis Expungement Board.
The government will also give preference to those who meet “social equity” criteria to receive a cannabis business license.
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Hell yes, set the precedent! The guy that got fired in 2006 for failing a drug test is salivating over the prospect of recovering 17 years worth of $26 per hour salary.
Reality is that NGOs will be receiving this money. Your guy will get nothing but the Community Organizers will be driving new Infinity Convertables.
Mn. the “Land of ten thousand Lakes” is now ‘the land of ten thousand social programs’, and counting.
This is no Joe.
If you have children in Minnesota, , if you own property in Minnesota , you really need to leave.
You cannot honestly imagine that they’ll stop here, right?
joke not joe
Sorry
Same thing, right?
Any bets on when the Child Rape reparations are coming?
Would that be reparations for kids who were raped as children or for adults who were prevented from raping children due to some silly age law?
Neither, it would be for those who raped children despite the law.
Where are the post-Bruen reparations for the families of dead victims like Polly Przybyl, Philip Russell Coleman, Bonnie Elmasri, and Louis Javelle?
Governments ought to start reparations with victims of their obscene denials of enumerated constitutional rights before they trickle down to the prohibition statutes.
This isn’t reparations, it’s just another clever vehicle for Democrat politicians to funnel tax money into Democrat activist groups’ slush funds.
Looks like the money is going to go to ‘professional organizers’ and we all know what that means. People who write grant proposals and speak fluent wokese. Naturally they’ll be paying themselves big big salaries. Who says all those social justice degrees are worthless? To be a top-notch parasite, you gotta know the ropes, speak the language.
“Then again, the drug business is really the only form of capitalism they can engage in because the government likes to keep them on welfare and dependent on Daddy Government. But that’s another story!”
No, it isn’t another story. The drglug game isn’t the only form of capitalism blacks can engage in. This is such condescending claptrap I expect to hear from woke, white Leftists, but it seems woke, white conservatives and woke, white libertarians think they need to make excuses for black people too.
Stop saying such nonsensical things.
Indeed. They also seem quite competent at organized shoplifting and cutting catalytic converters off cars in NJ towns. Coming from inner city schools that in some cases graduate no one at grade level in Math or Reading, is it any surprise?
So $15m a year in bribes to Leftist social welfare organizations who will (of course) kick back at least ten percent of that to the correct legislators, spend a vast proportion of the remaining on internal expenses such as salary, and dole out little dribs and drabs of the remaining in publicized checks to ‘the right people’ And of course any attempt to stop this Leftist grabby-gravy train will be opposed violently.
The Democrat controlled states are in a one-upmanship race to see who can out-fund and out-program the others in the goal of utopia! Minnesota is trying so hard t0 be the leader. The only thing missing is declaring only which music can be played to fully fill out “sex, drugs and rock-n-roll”.
Is it one-upping or are they just all trying different strategies and tactics — and seeing what works best.
And then sharing with one another.
In South Africa they’re legally taking property and lives at will. And singing about it.
The Nazis did this in the run-up to WWII.
The communists did this in the USSR after 1917 and elsewhere
Mao did it.
The Khmer Rouge did it.
The ayatollahs did it
Many other examples.
Folks who live in Minnesota will downplay what’s happening at their peril.
Surely, whatever works in Minnesota will serve as model for other Democrat-ruled America states. Minnesota will be happy to spread their expertise, as they acquire it.
If you live in Minnesota you need to sell your property and move away.
Port isn’t lying. The stupid war on drugs has affected minority communities more.
Then again, the drug business is really the only form of capitalism they can engage in because the government likes to keep them on welfare and dependent on Daddy Government. But that’s another story!
You’ve certainly bought into the leftist diatribe. It’s the only form of capitalism they CHOOSE to be a part of.
This will be interesting as with the huge drop in price Oregon isn’t collecting enough tax to even fund the State Control Board. The taxes were supposed fund all sorts of things. I know that they recently stopped using gambling taxes to fund any sort of gambling treatment programs, which is just as well since no.gov supported addiction service has ever worked, and often makes things far worse, cough, methadone, cough.
For those caught up in opioid addiction, methadone maintenance is highly effective . It does not change the tides nor move any mountains — but it helps save lives, and it improves overall psychosocial functioning. This has been known for decades.
https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/node/636