Grassroots–Legalize Cannabis Party
Minnesota political party advocating marijuana legalization
The Grassroots–Legalize Cannabis Party (G–LC) was a political third party in the U.S. state of Minnesota created by Oliver Steinberg in 2014 to oppose cannabis prohibition. G–LC was a democratic socialist party with a background branching from the Grassroots Party established in 1986.
Grassroots–Legalize Cannabis Party attained major party status in Minnesota in 2018 when their Attorney General candidate, who dropped out of the race to support the Democratic candidate, but whose name nevertheless remained on ballots, received 5.7 percent of the vote.
In 2022, G–LC resumed minor party status, when none of their candidates got 5% of votes, which was required then for major party ballot access in Minnesota. However their candidate for Minnesota State Auditor received more than 1% of votes, in 2022, maintaining minor party status for G–LC until 2026, though the party became inactive after 2023.
History
In 2014, the Grassroots–Legalize Cannabis Party was established by Oliver Steinberg because Steinberg and Chris Wright were unwilling to join the rest of the Grassroots Party when they merged with the Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now! Party. Steinberg, who had been convicted and jailed for attempted murder of a police officer during the peace movement in the 1970s, previously ran as a Republican candidate in 1984 and a Grassroots candidate in 1990.
In the 2014 race for governor, Wright received 31,259 votes. The party also ran a candidate for State Auditor who received 55,132 votes.
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