Seems Perfectly Legitimate 

One of the state officials responsible for “crafting” Minnesota’s medical marijuana law…

…is taking over at one of Minnesota’s new medical marijuana companies:

A Health Department official charged with overseeing Minnesota’s medical marijuana program has been hired away by one of the state’s new cannabis corporations.

LeafLine Labs, which is growing half the state’s supply of medical marijuana, announced Thursday that it had tapped Assistant Health Commissioner Manny Munson-Regala as its new chief executive.

“I’m thrilled,” LeafLine co-founder Dr. Andrew Bachman said Thursday. “I have incredible respect for Manny and he has helped to motivate and inspire our organization in this journey.”

And doesn’t this response seem just a little… precious to you?:

Munson-Regala, who had been overseeing the rollout of the Office of Medical Cannabis for the better part of the year, said his reaction when LeafLine approached him last Wednesday was a startled, “What?” In the end, he was attracted to the idea of helping to build a fledgling industry that sits “at the intersection of public policy and health.”

And in the clutch almost reads like a journalistic “April fools” joke, state official is quoted as saying Munson-Regal didn’t make any decisions about medical marijuana “in the past week”.

Well, then…

5 thoughts on “Seems Perfectly Legitimate 

  1. From the article:

    “. . . Munson-Regala, who helped the Health Department launch its MNsure health insurance exchange before tackling the medical marijuana rollout last year . . . .”

    Oh yeah, that’s some serious cred, right there. No wonder they snapped him up.

  2. Tony Montana: Me, I want what’s coming to me.
    Manny: Oh, well what’s coming to you?
    Tony Montana: The world, chico, and everything in it.

  3. It says something that in Minnesota, it takes a corporate laboratory to facilitate something as easy as smoking dope. And somehow I am reminded of both Bob Dylan’s “Everybody must get stoned” and Tom Lehrer’s “The Old Dope Peddler”.

  4. Glen Reynolds (the “Instapundit”) has proposed a 90% excise tax on incomes derived from precisely this sort of thing.

    I await, with bated breath, passage of such an amendment to the Code.

  5. Joe, it makes sense. Regala was rolling ganja at the same time MNSure was being rolled out. He’s a natural; all he needs is some tats.

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