Last week, Legacy Cannabis in Duluth was the first non-tribal retail shop to open and next February a Minneapolis building currently housing a Pizza Hut will become one of more than a dozen non-tribal dispensaries operating in Minnesota. Customers packed into the Brooklyn Park location of RISE dispensaries on its first day of cannabis sales, one of the first privately owned facilities to open about two years after the Legislature fully legalized the herb.
Compacts include how the state taxes the Nations on the sale of cannabis products to a licensed wholesaler or dispensary off-reservation. Several Tribal Nations have signed compacts with Minnesota and lead retail cannabis growth where the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is hoping to become a billion dollar enterprise after completing construction of a 50,000-square-foot cultivation facility that dwarfs any non-tribal operations which are capped at 30,000 square feet. The White Earth Nation was the first of Minnesota’s eleven Nations to open an off-reservation dispensary.
So far, the closest dispensaries to the horrible red state of South Dakota are in Morton and Willmar.
Governor Walz has announced he will run for a third term.
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