"One person planning to run next year for a legislative seat under the Legal Marijuana Now banner is Patricia Jirovec McArdell of St. Paul. She intends to be a candidate for the Minnesota Senate seat currently held by DFLer Dick Cohen, who also supports legalization.

“I believe that my running in this is something that will get these conversations going so that I can ask questions and have the rest of the candidates state their position on it,” she said, “and to get the conversation more normalized out in public.”' (9/25/19)