Minnesota is now the 23rd state to make it legal for adults to use marijuana recreationally.  

That means a lot will change in the next few months and years. Soon it will be legal to grow and smoke marijuana. Cities and counties must allow licensed cannabis shops to open. People with certain marijuana convictions will have them effectively erased. 

MPR News with Angela Davis talks about this shift in attitude towards marijuana and what the new law means for people who use cannabis products and those who do not. 

Guests 

• Sen. Lindsey Port, DFL-Burnsville is chief author of the bill legalizing cannabis in the Minnesota Senate. 




• Beau Kilmer is the McCauley Chair in Drug Policy Innovation at RAND, a non-partisan think tank headquartered in Santa Monica, California where he’s also co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. He’s co-author of the policy primer book “Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know.” 

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