MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has introduced he’s getting into the hashish market as a vendor, because the state nonetheless figures out retail gross sales of the drug on the heels of legalizing marijuana for adults final 12 months.
Ventura is launching his personal model of hashish edibles in partnership with Retro Bakery, which is predicated in suburban Minneapolis and producing hemp-derived THC edibles underneath the Jesse Ventura Farms model, Minnesota Public Radio reported.
“Ventura Farms is my foray into the world of hashish,” Ventura mentioned in a Wednesday video with rock music taking part in within the background.
He added, “I’m an enormous supporter of the hashish trade. Hashish saved my household’s life. And now it’s time for me to return to the hashish world. And you may be part of me — Jesse Ventura and Ventura Farms — any time you need. We’re within the recreation.”
Ventura has mentioned the drug helped his spouse get her seizures underneath management, MPR reported. Retro Bakery mentioned the Ventura-branded edibles can be out there for pre-order on April 1, in line with MPR.
A former skilled wrestler and actor, Ventura shocked the general public when he received the race for Minnesota governor as an unbiased candidate in 1998. He served as governor from 1999 to 2003.
Ventura was one of many first governors within the U.S. to brazenly help marijuana legalization.
Final 12 months, Minnesota turned the twenty third state to legalize leisure marijuana for adults.
This month, the state’s prime hashish regulator mentioned Minnesota in all probability received’t meet its purpose of launching full-scale retail marijuana gross sales within the first quarter of 2025 due to the time it’s going to take to draft rules and situation licenses.
Utilizing, possessing and rising marijuana for private use, inside limits, turned authorized final August. However gross sales are nonetheless a authorized grey space.
Presently, just a few tribally owned on-reservation retailers are legally allowed to promote leisure marijuana in Minnesota as a result of tribal sovereignty exempts them from state regulation.
