Cannabis Licensing Moves Forward Across Minnesota

We have been on the Minnesota cannabis bandwagon for a while. Like a lot of programs, this one has been slow to roll out, and not without its share of hiccups. That said, it's not New York, and I still firmly believe that Minnesota could be a great cannabis state. In this post, I'll give a high-level rundown of where things sit in Minnesota cannabis.

Where are we with Minnesota cannabis licensing?

The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) issued its first cannabis business license in June, and has preliminarily approved more than 1,000 applicants. This significant step forward came after OCM scrapped its pre-approval license lottery last December, in the face of various lawsuits. All applicants are now shuttled into a standard licensing process— although social equity-classified licenses still exist.