A Guest Editorial: State’s clunky rollout of recreational marijuana continues

A Guest Editorial: State’s clunky rollout of recreational marijuana continues

Minnesota’s rollout of recreational marijuana has been clunky — too slow and with too little information flowing downward to the city level. Now these confusing early stages of the rollout come with more concerns: taxes. A state decision to increase the tax on consumer purchases — now 15%, not including already existing state and local sales taxes — could drive consumers to purchase it illegally. And the decision to rescind the Local Government …