Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now is a political third party in the U.S. state of Minnesota established in 1998 to oppose drug prohibition.
Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now Party | |
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| Abbreviation | LMN |
| Chairperson | Dennis Schuller |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Preceded by | Independent Grassroots Party |
| Headquarters | Minneapolis |
| Newspaper | Freedom Gazette |
| Ideology | Marijuana legalization |
| Colors | Green, Gold, Red |
| State Senate | 0 / 67 |
| State House | 0 / 134 |
| U.S. Senate | 0 / 2 |
| U.S. House | 0 / 8 |
| Website | |
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Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now became a major party in Minnesota in 2018 when their candidate for State Auditor, Michael Ford, received 5.3 percent of the vote. During the 2010s the party began expansion attempts to other states, continuing during the 2020s, as the Legal Marijuana Now Party.
In 2020, the Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now nominee for United States Senator received 190,154 votes in the November 3 election, the largest number of votes received in 2020, in the U.S., by any such third-party candidate. Democrats have stated that Legal Marijuana Now candidates are detrimental to the Democratic Party. An analysis of votes cast in the 2020 Minnesota elections found that Legal Marijuana Now candidates might have helped Democratic candidates in swing districts, by pulling a greater number of votes from Republican candidates.
Scholars have credited Legal Marijuana Now with motivating the Minnesota Democratic Party to prioritize cannabis legalization, in 2023.