Minnesotans Against Marijuana Legalization (MAML)
Key Elements for Marijuana Legalization Scorecard
key element necessary authorities, resources, requirements grade/score (a-f) / 0 ( absent) – 5 (sufficient)*
Traffic Safety
Funding • Provide law enforcement with sufficient resources to address additional impaired drivers. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Staffing • Address law enforcement staffing shortage. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Impairment • Enable “fitness to drive” and physical impairment assessments. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Education • Fund education campaigns, similar to alcohol, to raise awareness of risks and consequences. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Public Safety
Staffing • Address law enforcement staffing shortage. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Regulation • Establish law enforcement role in regulated industry (see Regulated Industry). 0 1 2 3 4 5
Criminal Networks • Provide additional funding and authority to law enforcement agencies charged with combatting 0 1 2 3 4 5
organized and interstate criminal activity (See staffing shortage).
Safety and Justice • Separate impairment and the associated safety risk from determining criminality. 0 1 2 3 4 5
vs. Criminality • Address social justice and decriminalization separately from commercialization. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Regulated Industry
Regulation • Authorize and fund significant inspection, enforcement and regulatory capacity. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Limitations • Establish clear and reasonable age limitations on purchase, possession and use. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Packaging • Establish packaging and labeling requirements to prevent consumer confusion and/or deliber- 0 1 2 3 4 5
ate marketing to underage or unaware consumers.
Social & Community Impacts
Support • Fund expanded addiction, substance abuse and other programs. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Local Controls • Expressly allow local ordinances prohibiting marijuana sales in a jurisdiction. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Education • Add marijuana education to all existing drug awareness efforts in the K-12 system. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Workplace Safety
Employer Rights • Explicitly allow employers to set a zero-tolerance policy for safety sensitive positions. 0 1 2 3 4 5
• Address potential employer liabilities tied to complying with state and federal policies. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Impairment • Enable “fitness to work” assessment systems. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Support • Extend community addiction, habitation and other support programs into the workplace and/ 0 1 2 3 4 5
or provide incentives for employers to do so.
Public Investment
Public Spending • Determine necessary public dollar investments needed to cover the key elements. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Implications • Assess impact on black market of taxation/fee rate necessary to cover public costs. 0 1 2 3 4 5
Minnesotans Against Marijuana Legalization (MAML)
Key Elements for Marijuana Legalization Scorecard
Scorecard Purposes
This scorecard has two major purposes.
The first purpose is to identify the key elements that must be addressed in any legislation that would le-
galize marijuana use. Minnesotans will not be safer if marijuana is legalized. There will be more impaired
people on the roads, in the workplace and dealing with the impacts of drug use. The safety, social services,
regulatory oversight and public safety measures listed here will only reduce the impacts of marijuana legal-
ization on the safety of Minnesotans, not remove them.
The second purpose is to provide a way to evaluate legislative and other efforts to make marijuana use
legal in Minnesota. Legalization efforts that do not sufficiently address the key elements would place every
Minnesotan in harms way and should not be considered or adopted.
* Key Elements get a letter grade A to F
Bullet components of key element get a 0 (absent) to 5(Sufficiently Addressed) numerical score which is the “basis” for the letter grade
Minnesotans Against Marijuana Legalization (MAML) is a coalition to limit the expansion of recreational marijuana in Minnesota.
We believe recreational marijuana should not be expanded in Minnesota without considering the negative impacts that such a
policy will have on our roads, workplaces, communities, and homes, and without providing the statutory, technical and financial
resources needed to address the negative impacts.
For more information visit: www.minnesotansagainstmarijuanalegalization.org
