The lately appointed director of Minnesota’s new marijuana regulatory company Erin Dupree has resigned amid stories 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 hundreds 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 once I turned conscious of them I eliminated the merchandise from stock,” Dupree mentioned in a press release Friday.
“Nevertheless, it has turn into clear that I’ve turn into a distraction that may stand in the way in which of the necessary work that must be performed,” she added.
Her function 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 hundreds of individuals,” Gov. Tim Walz mentioned Saturday, the Star Tribune reported. “On this case, the method didn’t work and we bought this fallacious.”
Walz mentioned in a Friday assertion that the interim director of the hashish workplace, Charlene Briner, would stay in an interim function, in accordance with Minnesota Public Radio.
Minnesota’s legalization of leisure marijuana went into effect 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 trade within the coming months and years.
The midwestern state is the 23rd in the country to legalize leisure marijuana. Surrounding states — together with Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota — haven’t but legalized it.`