It has been an open question — until now — whether registered hemp retailers in Minnesota are selling raw cannabis flower that crosses the line between legal hemp and illegal cannabis.
Cannabis use is legal in Minnesota, but legal sales haven't started yet outside of tribal reservations. That means a raw cannabis flower purchased in the Twin Cities that recently tested above the legal limit isn't supposed to be sold in the state.
Because of a gap in the state's new recreational cannabis law, no state regulators had either the legal authority or the inspectors to sample the flower being sold to check whether it exceeded the federal and state definitions for hemp. That is, is the flower being sold in some stores legal or illegal? Does it contain more than 0.3% Delta 9 THC, the intoxicating compound in cannabis?
Turns out it does. The sample purchased from a registered hemp store by a private person tested at levels that are illegal under the law, according to the results from a California-based cannabis testing lab.
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