Senator Port Advocating Daily-Use & Peer-to-Peer Education

The Minnesota Anti-Narcotic & Anti-Addictive-Drug Coalition (ANC)

Interview with Senate Media Services

Senator Port Encouraging Minnesotans to Explore THC-Use and to Come to a "Cannabis Understanding:"

Troubling language of Senator Port includes, "People have now, sort of, found different paths into a cannabis understanding….It’s no longer just smoking a joint....It’s in low-dose gummy forms that help you sleep, it’s in an edible form or a drink, a THC beverage, in ways that people see fitting in their everyday lives.

This notion, here, contradicts Sen. Port and other proponents' bogus promises to the Legislature that the Bill's mandates (normalizing and guarantying statewide-access) will not increase cannabis use.

Sen. Port is encouraging Minnesotans who do not use cannabis to try various forms and potentially join newly minted ranks of daily users.

It is deeply troubling that Senator Port is trying to prevent a Senate Education Committee Hearing to discuss the mandate of messaging to children. The language currently in the bill deliberately avoids requiring schools tell kids they should not be users of THC, but rather merely requires schools disclose certain risks, as well as providing information about treatment options and coping practices for best living as an addict.

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the full Senate Media Services interview:

AFTER A FEW YEARS OF SETTLING IN, MINNESOTA WOULD CLEARLY BE EXPECTED TO HAVE AT LEAST THREE TIMES GREATER USAGE OF THC.