State of Marijuana in Minnesota: Lawsuit puts brakes on cannabis lottery
State of Marijuana in Minnesota: Lawsuit puts brakes on cannabis lottery
It’s unclear when the lottery could get back on track or the impact any of this will have on the start of cannabis rollout next year.
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This is just another example of the Walz dysfunctional administration.
You must have a criminal record in order to be a part of the rigged marijuana lottery….😂🤣😂🤣😂😅
How do you mess up selling cannabis?
This program is blatenly Racist. Sue everyone who came up with this into cardboard boxes.
If this doesn’t turn the state Red nothing will. SO let the people most likely to fail be in????? They couldn’t use their imagination to make this more dysfunctional.
Minnesota dropped the ball on legalization. Too many special interests
Get Tampon Timmy and the Minnesota DFL/demon-rats out of all businesses! They steal enough of our money.
The courts will be blamed for holding it up , and the democrats will use it , once again, for Votes ! Sad .
The people who sued clearly don’t understand the process or the industry. It was outlined by the OCM the entire time – once social equity verified applications were in, they would vet to determine who is capable of operating in a highly regulated industry immediately, at scale. Most the applicants were either deceitful, lying or completely unqualified. This was not to give anyone who applied a chance, it was to narrow down the ones who can execute immediately. Many, and most honestly, applicants have zero abilities to even grow a handful of plants, how’s that going to go when they have to manage thousands of plants, hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, comply with Metrc, regulatory bodies and agencies, build out facilities, order supplies, etc., etc. The time to learn is not after you get a license. The lady who filed her lawsuit, was intentionally being deceitful and gaming the system, common all over the industry and believe the OCM set up their process the way it did to catch and filter out these very people.
An alternative, and more logical, process would be to have applicants actually prove their capable of all the requirements of running a scaled cannabis company in real world scenarios – set up a small / medium size training facility ( that could also be used for training purposes beyond applicants ) and verify that way. Then, only hand out micro business licenses and license holders could move up license category types by proving they’re worth of doing so. It would eliminate 90% of applicants and make certain the industry gets started on the right track, which was the OCM’s intention with this process. The OCM was poised with a nearly impossible task, you cannot please everyone and make an entirely fair process, it’s just not realistic.
They probably could have just held the lottery any way because the judge really had no business halting this, even stated so. Again, it was stated the entire time that an applicant could be denied, with no ability to appeal. Not being given a "valid reason for denial" means nothing and almost certainly means an applicant was guilty of trying to game the system or deemed unqualified, but they were not owed any explanation or reason and would not be allowed to appeal anyway, so just accept it and move on to entering the next rounds. This process was no guarantee of a an actual license any way. And pretty foolish of them to think it’s a wise move to sue the governing body that will be overseeing the industry they’re trying to operate in…
If this doesn’t prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that team Walz have completely failed. A simple thing such a license taking literally YEARS to complete. How much tax money has been wasted so far with absolutely NO results?