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US (MN): Senate committee passes bill that would legalize cannabis flower for medical use

For the first time in a decade, a proposed bill legalizing the use of cannabis flower for medicinal purposes has passed a Minnesota Senate committee.

Advocates for the bill think it will eventually gain full approval from the Senate.

Patrick McClellan told he was surprised the bill passed on a unanimous vote in the Senate's Health and Human Services Finance and Policy Committee on March 1.

"I could never have imagined that it would pass with a unanimous vote," McClellan said. "I believe this is a historic moment in the Minnesota medical cannabis program, and it moves us one step closer to actually fixing what has been broken for years."

Read more at kstp.com