Minn. ‘Marijuana Czar’ Dethroned on Day One, Public Outraged by Regulator
Hypocrisy
By Benjamin Wetmore Sep. 23, 2023 5:40
pm
Erin
DuPree was the newly appointed Director of Minnesota’s marijuana regulatory
agency, having been elevated by Democrat Governor Tim Walz. Walz said DuPree
was an effective leader who would successfully oversee the state’s new pot
market in a press release Thursday.
After a single day she was up in smoke. DuPree was attacked,
according to the media, because she ran a business, ‘Loonacy’, in Apple
Valley, a suburb of Minneapolis, selling products that were in excess of limits on THC potency, had financial
issues with former associates, and had unpaid tax liens. She is accused of breaking the laws she was
about to start enforcing.
As well, she was about to start issuing fines to businesses even though she, personally, was behind on payments to employees, vendors, the state, and until just recently also federal tax authorities. According to news reports, DuPree owed $12,500 total to two different vendors she failed to pay and $71,000 owed for state taxes, and she just recently settled a $45,000 tax lien with the federal Internal Revenue Service. She was also caught selling vape products with THC, which was prohibited under the new law.
In a statement, DuPree said, “Conducting lawful business has been an objective of my business career. needs to be done.” Online, the detractors were more specific that DuPree had a defunct consulting firm, ran a Pilates studio and not an actual comparable business in the industry, she was set to be paid a high salary at $151,505, and was caught selling products that would have been found to be illegal by the office she was planning to run.
The Democrat Governor Tim Walz said that she was an “excellent choice.” The
Democrat Lieutenant Governor said she had “outstanding business acumen.” Walz named DuPree on Thursday Sept. 21, and she resigned on Friday Sept.
22.
Makes a person wonder if much of what Walz says can be believed.
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