The not too long ago appointed director of Minnesota’s new marijuana regulatory company Erin Dupree has resigned amid experiences that she bought unlawful hashish merchandise within the state.
Dupree ran a enterprise that bought merchandise exceeding state limits on THC efficiency, owed cash to former associates and accrued tens of 1000’s of {dollars} in tax liens, Minnesota Public Radio reported.
Loonacy Hashish Co. — the enterprise Dupree based in Apple Valley, Minnesota, final yr — posted on its now-deactivated TikTok account about its edible merchandise containing 10 milligrams of THC per serving and 150 milligrams per package deal, though state regulation solely permits hemp-derived edibles to comprise as much as 5 milligrams of THC per serving and 50 milligrams per package deal, the Star Tribune reported.
“I’ve by no means knowingly bought any noncompliant product, and after I grew to become conscious of them I eliminated the merchandise from stock,” Dupree stated in a press release Friday.
“Nevertheless, it has change into clear that I’ve change into a distraction that may stand in the best way of the essential work that must be performed,” she added.
Her position because the state’s first director of the Workplace of Hashish Administration would have begun on Oct. 2.
“One of many duties, and I take it and the buck stops with me, is the appointments of actually 1000’s of individuals,” Gov. Tim Walz stated Saturday, the Star Tribune reported. “On this case, the method didn’t work and we bought this unsuitable.”
Walz stated in a Friday assertion that the interim director of the hashish workplace, Charlene Briner, would stay in an interim position, in keeping with Minnesota Public Radio.
Minnesota’s legalization of leisure marijuana went into impact in August, permitting individuals 21 and older to legally possess and develop their very own marijuana for leisure functions, topic to limits because the state establishes a authorized hashish business within the coming months and years.
The midwestern state is the twenty third within the nation to legalize leisure marijuana. Surrounding states — together with Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota — haven’t but legalized it.`
