It was quiet morning on Oct. 6, inside Traverse City’s Great Lakes Hemp Supplements owned by Michigan Cannabis Activist Michael Thue, is a cannabis business with CBD products and a decal on the window that reads, “healers not dealers.” The solace shattered.
“This is raid,” shouted Michigan state troopers who rushed in the front door.
“Someone’s screaming, ‘state police,’” said 26-year-old office manager Megan O’Brien, who was meeting with a customer in another room. “I come around the corner and there are like 12 of them coming in with guns.”
It was the state police Marijuana and Tobacco Investigation Section, a special enforcement unit that targets — in addition to tobacco tax violations — marijuana-related criminal activity that takes place outside the Cannabis Regulatory Agency’s jurisdiction.
Police suspected the business was an illegal dispensary.
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