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Mike Mulcahy

The Daily Digest (majority supports medical marijuana, a later SOS)

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Good morning. Here's your Daily Digest:

Minnesota:

The newest poll from the Star Tribune shows 51 percent support legalizing marijuana for medical use while 41 percent oppose. (Star Tribune)

Gov. Mark Dayton won't be giving his State of the State address at the start of the legislative session. (MPR News)

State lawmakers are looking at ways to help low level offenders wipe away their criminal records. (AP via MPR)

A Republican group that set up fake websites  featuring Democratic candidates has changed the sites to make it more apparent that they actually support GOP campaigns. The changes come amid a warning that the original sites may have violated federal campaign law. One of the sites features Rep. Collin Peterson. (Star Tribune)

And as we've noted before GOP attempts at mischief seem only to encourage Peterson to want to run again. (Star Tribune)

Washington:

One group is benefiting from the Affordable Care Act: Older people who are too young for Medicare but who got hit hard during the recession. (AP via Star Tribune)

As states begin to legalize marijuana, it's now clear that it might be harder to prove someone is driving stoned than it is prove someone is driving drunk: "A 21-year-old on his first bender and a hardened alcoholic will both wobble on one foot. But the same is not necessarily true of a driver who just smoked his first joint and the stoner who is high five days a week." (New York Times)

Many are saying the Republican-controlled House is unlikely to take up any big bills between now and Election Day. (Washington Post)

Five years later, President Obama and Republicans are still arguing over how much good the $787 billion economic stimulus did. (AP via Pioneer Press)