Cases of illegal gummies and an overnight run out of state: Tales from Minnesota's THC trade

Northland Vapor employees knew they didn't have much time. It was the middle of the night on May 25. Within hours, a Minnesota regulator would arri...

August 4, 2023
12:46 PM

Northland Vapor employees knew they didn't have much time. It was the middle of the night on May 25. Within hours, a Minnesota regulator would arrive at the company's Moorhead warehouse to take control of more than 400 boxes containing more than 1 million THC edibles the state considered illegally potent and potentially dangerous. Hoping to save their multimillion-dollar investment, Northland's owners set in motion a plan to keep their stocks of the gummy bear-shaped intoxicants, many sold under the name Death by Gummy Bears, just beyond Minnesota's regulatory reach.

Ellie Roth