Legislative Session Starts; MMA to Focus on 5 Major Issues
February 19, 2026
State lawmakers returned to St. Paul on February 17 for the second half of the 2025-2026 biennium.
MMA President Urges Caution with Recreational Cannabis Legislation
January 12, 2023
In a January 11 opinion piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, MMA President Will Nicholson, MD, urges lawmakers to consider how legalizing cannabis will impact the health of Minnesotans.
“As physicians, we urge policymakers to be mindful of the harmful and difficult lessons learned with respect to alcohol and tobacco regulation,” Nicholson writes. “These lessons, combined with the best available, albeit insufficient, evidence on the health effects of cannabis must inform any future Minnesota policy.”
Nicholson then lists seven considerations that are taken from MMA policy on recreational cannabis. (The policy 530.999 can be found at the top of page 132 of the PDF.)
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MMA Priority Bill on AI and Prior Auth Already Moving at the Capitol
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