MN cannabis officials crack down on THC strains

MN cannabis officials crack down on THC strains

Nearly 4,000 cannabis retailers are checking their shelves Wednesday after receiving a warning from state officials. The Office of Cannabis Management is cracking down on certain strains of cannabinoids, as they say too many shops are carrying illegal products.

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27 Comments

  1. @siahleon7499 on July 21, 2024 at 11:40 am

    The black market is still where it’s at. Always will be.



  2. @TheMidwestSnowman on July 21, 2024 at 11:40 am

    Ill grow mine thanks



  3. @jkeezy93 on July 21, 2024 at 11:45 am

    THC-V is a naturally occurring cannabinoid.
    It is legal.



  4. @ianpastorous5744 on July 21, 2024 at 11:46 am

    Typical mn gov crap as always



  5. @gzmain78 on July 21, 2024 at 11:47 am

    Why legalize marijuana when it’s not legalized fully?



  6. @rq7035 on July 21, 2024 at 11:47 am

    This is where you can defund the police.



  7. @chiefbigtoe7260 on July 21, 2024 at 11:47 am

    doesnt sound so legal to me



  8. @mysteriousremnant9738 on July 21, 2024 at 11:52 am

    This is pathetic. Literally made marijuana legal just to make it illegal and crack down. What’s the deal with that while other states it’s legalized in has no issues whatsoever keeping it legal. What a complete waste of time.



  9. @michaeldaniel651 on July 21, 2024 at 11:53 am

    Government sucks.. Leave people alone



  10. @treyrinn6233 on July 21, 2024 at 11:54 am

    Making People Look Stupid No Legalize!



  11. @TroyHanson-ch6nm on July 21, 2024 at 11:58 am

    Why are you censoring my comments you dont like truth ? Wow 🤣🤣



  12. @eriksilvers7808 on July 21, 2024 at 12:01 pm

    That was a Jesse ventura Farms label and Retro Bakery!😮



  13. @luciferjones47 on July 21, 2024 at 12:01 pm

    This state is money hungry, and they don’t know how to fill any sort of position with any common sense person.. what the hell does that pink shirt know about cannabis?!



  14. @jesserademacher598 on July 21, 2024 at 12:02 pm

    I thought that was funny too.The news can’t even educate themselves.They don’t know the difference between a chemical compound and a strain. That just goes to show you how brain dead.The government is especially the people that are in charge of the minnesota cannabis program.



  15. @petebusch9069 on July 21, 2024 at 12:05 pm

    What a joke, and were supposed to respect government.



  16. @carl-cr7rp on July 21, 2024 at 12:05 pm

    Grow your own. The politicians are idiots.



  17. @minnesotanice369 on July 21, 2024 at 12:10 pm

    DEI Cannabis MGMT



  18. @roywest6557 on July 21, 2024 at 12:11 pm

    It should have never been illegal in the first place.



  19. @VirtuousWarrior-wr2fv on July 21, 2024 at 12:14 pm

    This is what you get with retail legalization. The ONLY reason MN legalized retail is for tax revs. Not for injustice not for freedom, but taxes. Citizens should have demanded full legalization but the movement itself isn’t filled with brightest folks and the state doesn’t represent the citizens only themselves.
    Most the folks I know who use drive to Michigan or buy from a private dealer as MN strains are some of the weakest in the nation.



  20. @TsavosAlliance on July 21, 2024 at 12:20 pm

    If the product has a label that says "Derived from Hemp" or "Hemp-Based" then stay away from it, the stuff you buy from a street dealer will get you higher!



  21. @SeshOne on July 21, 2024 at 12:21 pm

    Hey Fox 9, THC-V is not a strain. It is a molecule. Northern lights is a strain, Sour Diesel is a strain…THC, THC-A, THC-V, CBD, CBG, CBN etc are all specific cannabinoids.



  22. @brandiil8559 on July 21, 2024 at 12:22 pm

    THC-V doesn’t get you high. Why ban it?!



  23. @bradleysitsandsipstea33 on July 21, 2024 at 12:23 pm

    vote for less govt



  24. @xjarheadjohnson on July 21, 2024 at 12:26 pm

    _"In strict medical terms _*_marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume._*_ For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. _*_Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."_*
    *- Francis Young (Drug Enforcement Agency Judge – 1988)*

    _"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use…”_
    *- Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)*

    _“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”_
    *- Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)*

    _"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."_
    _“The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”_
    *- William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author & commentator)*

    _"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."_
    *- Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobilologist, author & science communicator)*

    _“You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it.”_ ….when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
    *- Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)*

    _"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."_
    *- Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)*

    _"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I’ll prove it to you. You’re at a ball game or a concert, and someone’s really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"_
    _“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn’t be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can’t make a profit off it, would it?”_
    _“…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit … unnatural?”_
    *-Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)*

    _"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on."_
    *- Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)*



  25. @mariopuzo4509 on July 21, 2024 at 12:26 pm

    Cant do anything for ppl without a hand in the cookie jar. Thats what this is really about – money.



  26. @stephensj76 on July 21, 2024 at 12:32 pm

    Land of 3.2 beer and 3.2 weed… 😂



  27. @imnotimpressed420 on July 21, 2024 at 12:33 pm

    Dumb ASL. Gov sucks