DFL lawmakers threaten to hold up budget to tighten police restrictions
After the deadly police shooting of Daunte Wright, Minnesota lawmakers are demanding stricter police accountability measures.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota Democratic state lawmakers are threatening to bring state government to the brink of shutdown unless the Legislature passes tougher restrictions on police after the killing of a Black man in a Twin Cities suburb.
A dozen state lawmakers, speaking from outside the heavily guarded Brooklyn Center Police Department building Wednesday morning, pressed Republicans who control the Senate to take up the legislation before budget negotiations continue. Lawmakers must pass a budget by July 1, or government shuts down.
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A group of Minnesota Democrats want to pass new restrictions on the state’s police departments following the shooting death of Daunte Wright – and they’re threatening to shut down the government in order to get their way.
The move by a dozen Democratic lawmakers from the People of Color and Indigenous (POCI) Caucus comes as legislators look ahead to a July 1 deadline for passing the next state budget, FOX 9 of Minneapolis reported.
If a spending plan isn’t approved by that date, the state government will shut down, according to the station.
Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Making Progress
A bill that would legalize marijuana for recreational use in Minnesota takes another step closer to become law.
The bill would allow adults over the age of 21 to buy and possess up to 1.5 oz of marijuana and grow up to eight plants, and it passed through its fifth committee hearing yesterday. The Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee passed the bill with an 11-7 vote. The hearing lasted less than an hour, and you can watch the entire thing below.
House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler is one of the sponsors of the legislation and in the hearing he says, We have an opportunity to create the kind of new industry that can be a model for not only how to be inclusive and how to repair past wrongs, but also to do so in a way that upholds very high environmental standards.
4 New States May Legalize Cannabis In 2021
So far in 2021the cannabis industry as a whole has been able to grow at an exponential rate. This current growth has also played a part in the better days of trading of some of the top marijuana stocks. For example, when word started to circulate about better cannabis legislation in the U.S. some cannabis stocks started to perform better in the market. Right there is a big push for ending cannabis prohibition in the United States.
Making cannabis federally legal will open more doors for the industry in its entirety. Along with federal cannabis, reform comes more states that are looking to pass some form of state-level cannabis legislation. By more states going legal will only add more value to the U.S. cannabis industry as well as give a bit more of a push for Congress to legalize cannabis on a federal level.
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