Jon Olson responded to NORML’s Candidate Questionnaire on 06/11/2020. Jon Olson's responses are below.

"I believe the federal government should end the federal prohibition on marijuana and allow the states to regulate it as a retail product, produced and distributed solely inside each state, under state-approved guidelines and regulations. Once we see how state regulatory frameworks succeed or fail, we could look at having Congress establish national interstate commerce approaches to regulation."

"There is a strong argument to be made for legalizing, regulating, taxing, and job creation for marijuana. However, we also need to understand how we determine how 'high' someone may be when they are stopped for driving erratically. We also benefit from decriminalizing, and even legalizing marijuana, as a social justice issue, expunging records from thousands of people who have been arrested and convicted for low-level possession charges. We know current laws harshly impact people of color, and definitely people at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum."

Separately, from Olson's campaign website:

"Rather than wait for a federal policy change, I believe Minnesota should study the states that have already legalized marijuana. We should assess their oversight and control mechanisms and compare the negative effects each state has faced to better understand how we might create our own successful marijuana industry. From that study, we can decide how and when to legalize marijuana in Minnesota.

We should not delay this decision. Copious evidence exists, from reputable, non-partisan sources, regarding the public policy options for legalizing marijuana. We should hold open hearings to fully study these options, and then move forward with a thoughtful and mature decision by our state legislature, or perhaps by referendum. We should come to our decision using facts and science to inform us.

I welcome the opportunity to find rational solutions to the issue of marijuana in our modern Minnesota society."

Jon Olson responded to NORML’s Candidate Questionnaire on 06/11/2020. Jon Olson's response is below.

"Minnesota already has legal cannabis. The restrictions are many, and somewhat ridiculous. I would actually support state-level robust medical testing of marijuana at our medical research centers. Then we can know what medicinal value marijuana might yield across a wide range of therapeutic opportunities."