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Former health execs accused of medical pot smuggling in Minnesota
After months of legal battles over the felony drug charges against the former chief medical officer of Vireo Health, Dr. Laura Bultman, and Vireo’s downtown White Plains dispensary, has been upheld.
A Court of Appeals in Minnesota upheld the charges rejecting the officers’ bid to toss the charges. The appellate decision means that a trial is more likely now.
The Accusations
The two ex-Vireo senior execs were accused of smuggling medical marijuana from Minnesota to New York. The accusations note that the two used the firm’s armored automobile to move medicated cannabis oil between two states illegally.
After reviewing the case as to whether the laws addressed the smuggling of medical pot across the two-state borders well enough, the court ruled that the law didn’t allow the transfer.
The Legal Argument
According to the Minnesota regulations, the apparent smuggling case turns out to point out various legal arguments. For instance, the first argument could be either that some criminals desperately smuggled the medical cannabis in the armored SUV packed with almost $500,000 of cannabis oil.
The other scenario is that maybe respected corporate officers would have transported (behind the masks) the state-licensed medical cannabis from the Minnesota-based company to the affiliate in New York.
Some aspects of the case also have few other connections to the New York State’s medical cannabis program, like allegations that the cannabis oil was illegally sold to patients which were later tested at the state government’s Wadsworth Lab.
The Department of Health in New York, which oversees the cannabis program, reported that it was independently investigating the smuggling allegations and said to release the findings when the case concludes.
The alleged smuggling could indeed be illegal according to the Appellate Court. The two officers are charged with transferring medical cannabis to some unauthorized person.
Nevertheless, the case has implications for the growing cannabis industry in Minnesota and New York. Perhaps, it has exposed some potential holes in the efforts the government is putting into preventing medical cannabis from crossing the state borders. These scenarios increase the threat of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration raids on the companies licensed by the state laws.
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