Minnesota Cannabis Dispensaries Struggle to Stock Shelves
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OG article by Caroline Cummings
Supply chain lags behind.
Adult-use cannabis businesses approved.
Lack product for shelves.
Industry in early stages.
Minnesota legalized recreational use over two years ago.
Licensing process continues.
Nearly 60 businesses licensed.
1,400 pending.
Most are microbusinesses.
Retail endorsement for sales.
Owner challenges.
Mark Eide owns In-Dispensary.
Downtown Minneapolis.
Licensed in August.
Sells only low-dose hemp THC edibles.
Business declined.
Laid off staff.
Could handle 80 customers daily.
Now, two to four.
Four times more with supply.
Similar frustrations.
Joelle D'Alencar owns Loon Leaf.
In Blaine.
Customers frustrated.
Businesses may close early.
High entry costs.
Limited supply sources.
Two cultivators licensed.
Plants growing.
Not mature yet.
Three tribal compacts.
Allow early growth.
Sovereign nations.
Not enough for all.
Tribal dispensaries need product too.
Regulator outlook.
Eric Taubel directs Office of Cannabis Management.
Expected this phase toughest.
Confident in improvement.
More compacts ahead.
Other businesses start cultivation.
24 cultivators preliminarily approved.
13 microbusinesses can cultivate.
Medical companies may wholesale.
State needs 1.5 million sq ft canopy.
Has fraction now.
Added hurdles.
No transporters licensed.
Move product between businesses.
Only two testing facilities.
Complicates flow.
How to get product?
Test it?
Bulk or pre-packaged?
Taubel: One transporter near approval.
Tribes, medical can self-transport.
Early compacts provide some supply.
Medical firm stance.
RISE operates in Minnesota.
Wants to expand sales.
Bound by state limits.
On cultivation, manufacturing.
Sells medical to others.
Wants adult-use too.
If supply imbalance resolved.
Customer impact.
Many confused.
Expect adult-use cannabis.
Leave disappointed.
Need long explanations.
Educate on delays.
Latest update.
Third compact signed Monday.
Prairie Island Indian Community.
Others: White Earth Nation.
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.
Allow off-reservation dispensaries.
Sell to non-tribal businesses.
White Earth supplies Legacy Cannabis in Duluth.
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