The Star Tribune reported that a top Republican in the Minnesota legislature was surprised to learn that they supported legislation that legalized cannabis products.
Residents of Minnesota have been consuming products containing a less potent form of the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana for a long time. It was only by exploiting a gray area in the law that it was possible to do that.
In order to better regulate the industry, lawmakers passed a bipartisan reform that legalized cannabidiol products and regulated the industry. Products in the state can only contain a maximum of 5 and 50 grams of the drug.
The law doesn't specify what type of cannabis it contains. Delta-9 products are now legal.
Some people are saying they will be surprised.
According to the Star Tribune, the chair of the Human Services Reform Finance and Policy Committee said this week that he thought they were doing a technical fix, but it ended up having a bigger impact than he anticipated. The legislature could change the law, he said.
Carol M. Moss is an attorney who represents cannabis businesses in the state.
She said that the caps were included at a House committee hearing. The work was done in the morning.
The Republican leader of the upper chamber, Sen. Jeremy Miller, told the Star-Tribune that he did not discuss the law with the senator.
Miller didn't reply to the email.
Moss believes that a state commission of technocrats more familiar with the science would be a better way to regulate the cannabis industry.
She said that lawmakers who don't understand what they are trying to regulate are doing it piecemeal which causes problems.
There is no going back for Democrats who support legalization.
Ryan Rinkler, the top Democrat in the Minnesota statehouse, told the Star Tribune that this was a step forward.
Tell us about a news story. C Davis is the reporter for Insider.
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