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Pawlenty vetoes medical marijuana, signs Legacy bill
5/23/09|Minneapolis Star Tribune| by Mike Kaszuba and Pat Doyle - Star Tribune staff writers



Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed an emotionally charged proposal late Friday to allow terminally ill patients to use marijuana for medical purposes, but signed into law a plan to disburse hundreds of millions of dollars from the Legacy Amendment passed by Minnesotans last year.

Four days after the Legislature ended with a stormy adjournment, the governor issued five vetoes Friday night on issues from election law to mortgage-foreclosure proceedings.

He also signed a bill late Thursday that allows police to pull over drivers solely because they or their passengers are not wearing seat belts. Currently, officers must spot another traffic offense before they can stop a vehicle and ticket someone for not being strapped in. The new law is effective June 9, and carries a $25 fine.

Pawlenty, who in 2008 set an apparent single-year record for most vetoes by a Minnesota governor, indicated in a letter that he was torn by the medical marijuana legislation. He said that while he was "sympathetic to those dealing with end-of-life illnesses," he felt marijuana poses "serious public safety and health risks." Legalizing marijuana, even under limited conditions, "could serve to compound these problems," he wrote.

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Gee

How can people be so narrow minded about the medicinal values of cannabis?!?

mastershake407

hopefully this will be the final nail in this assholes re-election coffin.

TheQuestionMark

just another politician stating his opinion without ANY facts to back any of it up

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claygooding

The bill has enough votes in the legislature to carry an override vote,and the bills supporters say it will happen.

mastershake407

This pleases me

buzz

What a waste. Hey gov.. Go get two hookers with a raging STD and don't call me in the morning

mcduffee420

hahahaaaa fuck yeah dude thats funny though

Frylok

Well then I guess Pawlenty blew his next election for nothing. Way to take one for the GOP team, maybe you and Dick Cheney can get together and have a whine-fest.

Guru

"He said that while he was "sympathetic to those dealing with end-of-life illnesses," he felt marijuana poses "serious public safety and health risks." Legalizing marijuana, even under limited conditions, "could serve to compound these problems,"

I just spit up my cornflakes. So your "sympathetic" to people who are dieing but you will support denying them potentially life saving medication?
Talk about an oxymoron.

I hope when he is on his death bed someone pulls out his IV and tips his bed over

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