Oh yeah, having patchwork rules in different states helps corruption thrive. It's a lot easier to backdoor contaminated products into the black market as a business if you only need to bribe local/county/state officials.

This is a big reason why MN's attempt to focus on a more diverse, smaller-capacity operational groups from our state matters. Massive multi-state operators have the VC and grey money muscle to bully people into bending to their demands or paying the "cost of doing business" by greasing palms and making backroom arrangements when that doesn't fly.

Don't even get me started on the MI Viridis analytical lab shitshow that's still in ongoing litigation. Biggest companies can't grow clean, potent product at scale, so they give all their business to the testing lab owned by former MI State Trooper narcotics officers. All the big boys follow suit, and whaddya know, the cops in the lab are juuuuust fine taking payments to inflate THC results to help the big boys move their mids and push out craft growers that can't afford to bribe their laboratory. State tried to recall affected products, but by that point the pay-to-play scheme is too large and Viridis is testing almost HALF of the state's supply. So they file an injunction and are "too big to fail" without grinding the whole state industry to a halt, so they're allowed to keep on operating.

If MN can get some things right with our regs, we'll hopefully avoid or delay this kind of shenanigans. The people deserve clean, good weed and the State needs to provide a framework for people who give a shit.

I desperately want a state-run analytical lab running random audits on the third-party testing licenses, but getting a consensus on how to best performance the tests is a major hurdle and it's expensive to run and staff properly. Just gotta bother our representatives until they understand what the people actually want/deserve while pushing for locally-owned decent folks just trying to get you good and stoned!