By Lydia Moran
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Minnesota’s two medical cannabis dispensaries can now legally sell for recreational use. Green Goods and RISE began selling Tuesday and Wednesday at locations in the Twin Cities and across the state, which marks “the first time many Minnesotans will have a legal dispensary nearby after the slow state rollout left tribes operating the first handful of dispensaries to date,” reports the Star Tribune.
In more cannabis news, the first licensed cannabis microbusiness dispensary opened Tuesday in Duluth at exactly 4:20 p.m. “One of the coolest things about all this is (in) most other states, the very first dispensaries to get their doors open are those large, multi-state corporate cannabis [retailers]. It’s just really exciting that we’re seeing a craft cannabis market begin (here) that many of us envisioned for so many years,” Josh Wilken-Simon of Legacy Cannabis told MPR News.
Nearly three dozen Republican state lawmakers are asking the BCA to release an expanded toxicology report on the Annunciation Church shooter’s body, KSTP reports, to “test for substances ranging from street drugs to medications used in psychiatric treatment and gender transition.”
At a briefing at the Oval Office on Monday President Trump was asked why he did not order flags to be flown at half-staff after the assassination of Minnesota lawmakers Melissa and Mark Hortman, and the attempted assassination of John and Yvette Hoffman in June. “I wouldn’t have thought of that, but I would have if somebody asked me,” he replied. The Guardian has more.
The Twin Cities and other parts of Minnesota hit 90F on Tuesday. Is that normal? “September average temperatures have warmed by 4F in just the last five decades, making it one of our fastest-warming months in the year as a result of climate change,” Bring Me the News reports.
