As of May, 2024 forty seven Native cannabis retailers are operating fifty seven stores in nine states for a gain of some thirty percent since January, 2023. Nations in Minnesota and New York lead retail growth in those states but in California and Michigan the industry is reaching full flower very quickly, too.
In Minnesota, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is near completion of a 50,000-square-foot cultivation facility that will dwarf any state-licensed operations which are capped at 30,000 square feet and eleven nations are negotiating compacts with the state.
The White Earth Nation is working toward an agreement to open an adult-use cannabis dispensary in the former JL Beers restaurant building on Moorhead’s east side. The White Earth Nation bought and repurposed a chip factory for indoor [cannabis] production, and it has greenhouses and about 10 acres of land under cultivation for cannabis. [White Earth Nation prepping former JL Beers to become cannabis dispensary]When former Representative Tim Walz was running for governor in 2017 legal cannabis was a favorite topic in Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party primary and in 2023 Governor Walz signed legal cannabis into law.
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