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The law in fact tells retailers they cannot serve a THC beverage to a customer who appears intoxicated or has drunk alcohol within five hours, but it doesn’t take effect until 2025.
It was rising crime on platforms and vehicles that led the Legislature to change how Metro Transit deals with safety in part by shifting fare enforcement from cops to civilians.
Reports from the Department of Revenue show that 842 businesses paid $771,514 in cannabis taxes in August.
Erin DuPree has asked that Gov. Tim Walz withdraw her appointment to be the director of the Office of Cannabis Management after two news stories revealed that she had sold disallowed products in her Apple Valley hemp store and has a series of tax liens and unpaid debts from previous businesses.
Erin DuPree founded, and is vice president of sales and operation, for Loonacy Cannabis in Apple Valley.
Most searches by police require a judge’s OK, but there are exceptions that have long been endorsed by state and federal courts, with the so-called automobile exception being at issue in this latest ruling.
The task force has until February to recommend whether the Legislature should make the Met Council an elected body or adopt other changes in governance.
Quarter-after-quarter, starting the spring of 2020, Minnesota’s economic and revenue forecasts were off — sometimes way off.
If done improperly or without adequate equipment, using solvents like butane to draw THC from marijuana buds can lead to massive explosions if a spark sets off the evaporated solvents. But there are safer methods to make THC concentrates.
The ACLU filed a a request to intervene on behalf of two formerly incarcerated Minnesotans who are among those whose voting rights were restored as part of a new state law.
HHS sent a formal request that DEA move marijuana from its schedule I list of drugs to schedule III.
Would a Walz appointment of a Walz staffer serve as a surrogate for Republicans to strike out at the DFL incumbent who will not be on the ballot himself? Probably not.
The Transit Signal Priority System Planning working group is looking at signals as well as bus stop locations, bus stop spacing, bus lanes and curb extensions.
In the first month, the 10% sales tax brought in $594,461 from 571 businesses. That means total sales were $5.94 million.
Despite fears of being absorbed by a massive recreational marijuana system passed this year, patients in the medical cannabis system authorized in 2012 might end up with the best of both worlds.
The job involves drafting rules covering everything from the requirements for each of the 16 licenses, how retailers are regulated, how social justice programs are shaped and administered and how potent marijuana and hemp-derived products can be.
Jobs in transportation, public safety and those considered “safety sensitive” — think construction, manufacturing, others — still will be subject to THC testing requirements.
The bugs cited by Republicans include that the law allows public smoking and provides too-lax consequences for minors and those suspected of driving while impaired by marijuana.
The Metro Transit police chief says the agency is taking an “educational approach” to fare enforcement. For now.
The challenges facing Lesley Kandaras include ridership that is recovering but is still not back to pre-pandemic levels, increased crime and disruption on transit and a shortage of both transit operators and transit police.
