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kurtis.bsky.social
Drug law reformer in Minnesota
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Shout out to the state of Minnesota for raising taxes on cannabis before even licensing cannabis operations, great work www.startribune.com/minnesota-co...

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The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management has agreed to a settlement with a group of social equity marijuana business license applicants who were granted entry into a canceled license preapproval lottery. www.startribune.com/minnesota-po...

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Kurtis Hanna said the higher tax could deter people who buy cannabis on the illicit market from purchasing it legally. “We’re taking an industry that hasn’t even gotten up off the ground and making it more difficult to transition the illicit market to the legal market. It’s extremely concerning.”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Minnesota's long bong water nightmare is finally over minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/20/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The bipartisan budget deal approved by Minnesota lawmakers includes a tax increase from 10% to 15% on cannabis products sold at licensed businesses in the state.

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The Minnesota Legislature passed a big cannabis bill. Here’s what’s in it. www.startribune.com/the-minnesot...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Why are DFL leaders trying to raise the so called "sin" tax on cannabis by 50% at the 11th hour of the legislative session in the Omnibus Tax Bill, #SF2374? #mnleg @senatedfl.bsky.social @mnhousedfl.bsky.social @dfl.org @melissahortman.bsky.social @epmurphymn.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

#mnhouse passes SF2370, as amended in conference committee, 80-50. The cannabis policy bill would, in part, create a lower-potency hemp wholesaler license. It now goes to the governor. #mnleg

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Tonight's Joint Convention of the House and Senate for @governorwalz.mn.gov's State of the State address is underway — LIVE #mnhouse coverage on HTV1 🔴 Watch on the House website www.house.mn.gov/live/1 and YouTube www.youtube.com/live/CE5Csql... #mnleg

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www.mprnews.org/episode/2025... my former colleague kurt hanna on the MN cannabis market situation

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A Ramsey County judge has ordered the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management to hold the social equity license preapproval lottery it canceled last fall amid a flurry of litigation www.startribune.com/judge-orders...

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hell yes

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Polk County, Minnesota, contains less than 1 percent of the state population, but it pumps out more drug-free zone prosecutions than Minneapolis.

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Most of the city of East Grand Forks, MN, is considered a "drug free zone," triggering enhanced criminal penalties for otherwise minor drug offenses. A bill before the Minnesota Legislature would dramatically reduce the extent of those zones statewide. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/03/b...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Following a Reformer report on the "non-standard and punitive" enforcement of "drug-free" zones in Polk County, Minnesota, DFL lawmakers have introduced a bill to curtail the practice. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/03/b...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

The personal use and possession of psilocybin – often found in recreational “magic mushrooms" – by people 21 and older would be decriminalized under the newly proposed bill.

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16 years ago Minnesota became the butt of late-night jokes when the state Supreme Court ruled that used bong water should be considered an illicit drug. That era may finally be coming to an end.

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My colleague Ryan Faircloth and I interviewed Minnesota's new cannabis chief Eric Taubel about tribal compacts, rulemaking and when the state could see a "pretty robust" legal pot market www.startribune.com/minnesotas-n...

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Downtown #Minneapolis with a little bit of #StreetArt. Maybe one day #Minnesota will get their stuff figured out and finally get legal #weed sales. #photography #art #nikon #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #streetphotography #urbanphotography #cannabis

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Minnesota’s 11 tribal nations each would be allowed to license up to five retail cannabis dispensaries outside their reservations under long-awaited compacts with the state, according to a draft of one such compact obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune. www.startribune.com/minnesota-tr...

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

Good luck to any aspiring non-tribal cannabis business in Minnesota. It is going to be rough to compete with this. #mnleg www.minnpost.com/state-govern...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

This story (originally Grand Forks Herald, as Chris credited) is crazy. The up-charge people based on whether they *drove past* a school. Come for that, stay for the photo of a young, ambitious Peter McLaughlin proposing the original law.

submitted 135 days ago • 2 comments