DAVID MARCUS: Minnesota’s botched legal weed rollout reeks of DEI, corruption and Tim Walz

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – One would deliberation that moving a profitable ineligible marijuana manufacture would beryllium conscionable astir the easiest happening successful the world, but don’t archer that to the Democrat enactment of Minnesota, which allowed wokeness and evident corruption to grind their legalization rollout into dust.

Wherever 1 lands connected the benefits oregon progressively evident harms of marijuana legalization, erstwhile a authorities decides to bash it, it has a work to bash it successful a mode that astir benefits each the citizens. Of course, Gov. Tim Walz and the Minnesota Democrats made it each astir societal equity.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has said "Minnesota is simply a prosperous state, a well-run state." (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

The 2023 legalization authorities mandated that for a twelvemonth and a half, lone Indian reservations could get licenses, a signifier of reparations akin to erstwhile New York mind-numbingly mandated that lone radical with erstwhile marijuana convictions could unfastened stores.

The upshot is that today, respective dispensaries successful the authorities person nary merchandise and others person a dwindling supply. One dispensary relation told maine with a sigh, "We mightiness get a caller proviso adjacent week."

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And that’s not all, due to the fact that the authorities has not approved capable licenses for transporting the product, overmuch of it is sitting astatine farms, incapable to get to market.

But the worst portion of this, 1 precise overmuch related to the existent ungraded implicit fraud committed by Somali groups supposedly feeding kids, is that the authorities provides millions of dollars successful grants and loans to commencement weed shops based connected wokeness and DEI.

For example, the CanStartUp programme "is a indebtedness programme disposable to caller cannabis microbusinesses," successful which a non-profit hands retired the payer currency "with precedence fixed to societal equity applicants."

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"Social Equity Applicants," tin beryllium astir work to mean, nary White guys.

Dr. Scott Jensen, one of respective Republicans seeking to halt Walz from winning a 3rd word adjacent year, said it is portion of a signifier with Walz and his cronies.

Two ample integrative bags filled with marijuana beryllium connected a woody table adjacent to a weapon and paperwork. (SCDC)

"The Walz squad has repeatedly been characterized by a willingness to play governmental hardball by picking winners and losers, focusing connected preserving voting blocks, rewarding loyalty implicit competence, ignoring worker input, and squashing transparency," Jensen told me.

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John Nagel, a erstwhile authorities trooper moving arsenic a Republican against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., had a harsher assessment.

"Minnesota Democrats are recreating the nonstop conditions that led to the Feeding Our Future scandal, lone this clip they’re doing it wrong the state’s caller marijuana industry," helium said. "When you look astatine the pattern, it’s unmistakable. The aforesaid governmental people that fto Feeding Our Future flourish is present designing the cannabis marketplace utilizing the aforesaid toolkit—DEI connection arsenic governmental cover, nonprofit intermediaries with insider ties, and astir nary accountability."

He’s got a point. Why does Minnesota request to manus retired millions of dollars to nonprofits to thatch radical however to merchantability weed? It’s not hard, conscionable bent up a motion and ringing up the sales.

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This benignant of corruption is thing new. In the 1920s, Democratic Party machines gave retired no-show patronage jobs down astatine the docks. Today, they manus retired needless multi-million-dollar DEI contracts. It’s the aforesaid game.

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The occupation of the authorities is to marque things tally efficiently for each citizens, not to infuse each task oregon argumentation with DEI initiatives that are small much than payoffs to loyal elector groups. Nationwide, the magnitude of wealth shelled retired for this nonsense is successful the billions.

Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks during a people up gathering with the House Budget Committee connected Capitol Hill May 16, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

In the aftermath of the Feeding our Future scandal, it is evident that the nonprofits progressive successful this DEI weed inaugural indispensable beryllium investigated. How tin anyone present spot that the wealth isn’t being abused?

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The cherry connected apical of this abysmal concern is that the inability of ineligible dispensaries to service their clientele is driving radical backmost to the achromatic market, which volition effect successful accrued marijuana arrests, the precise happening this authorities was meant to forestall successful the archetypal place.

It’s honestly amazing.

Meanwhile, fewer radical present successful the Land of 10,000 Lakes adjacent cognize immoderate of this is happening, due to the fact that the section quality media, which simply calls this each a "logistics problem," acts much similar accomplices than arbiters of truth.

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Walz and the Democrats successful Minnesota person nary much payment of the uncertainty erstwhile it comes to shady laws that ablution wealth connected DEI-driven nonprofits. It's clip to spot wherever these millions of dollars to bid up the adjacent procreation of cannabis workers truly went.

Perhaps the authorities tin amusement that spending these millions of dollars had immoderate affirmative effect for Minnesota, but close now, it seems acold much apt that the wealth conscionable went up successful smoke.

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