A day after Minnesota’s governor appointed Erin Dupree as the incoming director of the state’s new marijuana regulatory agency, Dupree resigned and reports surfaced that she has sold illegal cannabis products in the state.
“However, it has become clear that I have become a distraction that would stand in the way of the important work that needs to be done,” she added.
Her role as the state’s first director of the Office of Cannabis Management would have begun on Oct. 2. “One of the responsibilities, and I take it and the buck stops with me, is the appointments of literally thousands of people,” Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday,Walz said in a Friday statement that the interim director of the cannabis office, Charlene Briner, would remain in an interim role, according to Minnesota Public Radio.
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