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DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS TO REVOKE POLITICAL PARTY STATUS OF MARIJUANA PARTY

Fargo, ND, USA / The Mighty 790 KFGO | KFGO
Paul Jurgens
Feb 7, 2024 | 2:39 PM

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Minnesota Reformer) – The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Party asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to decertify the Legal Marijuana
Now Party as a major political party. The DFL alleges the Legal Marijuana Now
Party hasn’t complied with the state’s new election laws, and that its recent
nomination of a presidential primary candidate against her wishes illustrates
the party’s disregard for the law.

DFL Chair Ken Martin also wants the court to order Secretary of State Steve
Simon to bar Legal Marijuana Now from nominating a presidential candidate.

Democrats have an interest in seeing the Legal Marijuana Now Party — one of two
parties driven to legalize what is now legal — lose its major party status. (The
other, Grassroots Legalize Cannabis Party, is now a minor party.)

Republicans have at times seemed to collude with pot party candidates in an
effort to siphon votes away from Democratic candidates in close congressional
and legislative races, enraging some Democrats. The campaign treasurer of the
Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate in the 2nd Congressional District race in
2022, for instance, posted a photo of herself with a flag depicting President
Donald Trump photoshopped as “Rambo” holding a bazooka.

Major party status confers significant advantages, especially ballot access,
negating the need for the expensive and onerous process of collecting signatures
to appear on the ballot. The secretary of state’s office declined to comment,
citing pending litigation.

Dennis Schuller, chair of the Legal Marijuana Now Party, told the Reformer
Tuesday he was unaware of the lawsuit, but said he wasn’t surprised because the
DFL and GOP parties have long been hostile to outsiders.

“They don’t feel like we’re worthy of being part of the political system.
They’ve made rules to try to eliminate us,” Schuller said, citing the new
election laws passed by the DFL-controlled Legislature.

The Minnesota Legislature last session created new criteria for major party
status. To qualify, a party must hold local conventions and have executive
committees for at least 45 counties or legislative districts, and must submit
documentation that includes the list of dates and locations of those conventions
during a general election year.

The DFL in its court filing includes correspondence between Schuller and the
Office of the Secretary of State. Schuller, in his first letter seeking major
party status, said the party held conventions in June 2022 and in April 2023. In
a second letter, Schuller said the June 2022 convention was for “state,
congressional district, county and legislative district conventions.”

The secretary of state’s office told the Legal Marijuana Now Party it needed to
submit specific dates and locations of the conventions. Schuller submitted a
third letter, which included a list of the party’s 2022 conventions. The list
consisted of its state convention, eight legislative district conventions and 67
legislative district or county conventions, all held on the same date in June
2022 at an address in Bloomington and online via Zoom.

The DFL in its filing said it was “implausible” for the marijuana party to hold
all its conventions, including its state convention, on the same day at the same
location and via Zoom. In addition, the Legal Marijuana Now Party stated in a
Facebook invite that the state convention was one-hour long.

“It is practically and logistically impossible for 76 separate conventions to be
held on one day, let alone one hour, and in one location,” the DFL’s court
filing states. “It is infeasible for 76 bodies of delegates to complete the
business of each unit in one hour at one location.”

The filing also states that the Legal Marijuana Now Party is ineligible to
participate in the presidential election because state law only allows a major
party to do so if it holds a national convention, and the DFL says in its court
filing that it does not.

The DFL also cited recent reporting that found one of the Legal Marijuana Now
Party candidates did not consent to being on the party’s ballot for the
presidential primary. The Star Tribune last week reported that the party placed
Colorado resident Krystal Gabel on the Minnesota presidential primary without
her knowledge. Gabel said she learned of her candidacy through a Google alert.

“The (Legal Marijuana Now) Party’s disregard for the requirements of Minnesota
election law is underscored by its purported participation in the presidential
nomination primary and designation of at least one candidate for that election
who neither requested nor consented to appear on the ballot,” the DFL said in
its court filing.

The DFL said Simon — a Democrat in his third term — made an error in certifying
the marijuana party as a major political party and asked the Supreme Court to
correct it.

The Legislature legalized low-dose THC edibles and drinks in 2022 and fully
legalized cannabis last year. Licensed dispensaries are expected to come online
in early 2025, making the pot parties’ mandates increasingly obscure.

Schuller said even though marijuana use is now legal for adults in Minnesota,
the party is focused on federal legalization and is more broadly centered on
representing the state’s independent voters.

“It’s a great symbol of what we stand for, but it’s more than just the leaf,”
Schuller said. “We don’t dictate the candidates, what and how they should
believe. We support them.”





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