The 2024 Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now presidential primary took place on March 5, 2024, for the 2024 presidential election. The contest was held on Super Tuesday alongside primaries in 14 other states and

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Legal Marijuana Now Party The Legal Marijuana Now Party is a political Third party (United States), third party in the United States. The party’s platform includes abolishing the Drug Enforcement Administration and legalizing hemp and cannabis (drug), marijuana. As of ...

presidential primary, and the first

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, earned a plurality of votes in the election, despite having withdrawn from the race, asking people to not vote for her.

Candidates

The following candidates appeared on the ballot: *

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, activist and candidate for

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''(withdrew January 26, 2024)'' * Rudy Reyes, archeologist and Legal Marijuana Now Party chairperson * Dennis Schuller,

Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now Party 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 became a major party in Minnesota in 2018 when their candidate for State Audit ...

chairperson; former Richfield, Minnesota, municipal planning commission member (2011–2014) *

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, performance artist, activist, and perennial candidate from Massachusetts; former Libertarian Party Judicial Committee member (2020–2022) ''(Also seeking the Democratic nomination)''

Campaign

Krystal Gabel, who had been national chairperson of the Legal Marijuana Now Party from 2021 through 2023, withdrew from the race during the party's candidate filing discussions. In 2024, when Gabel asked to be removed from the ballot after early voting had started on January 19, the

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's office stated that changes cannot be made to the list of candidates after being certified at the beginning of January, and Gabel's name remained on ballots.

Write-in

Of Minnesota's three major political parties, all of which included a write in option for their 2024 nominating primaries, only the Legal Marijuana Now party submitted a write in name to be counted,

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, to the Secretary of State.

Results

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