Cannabis retailers are legal and licensed by Minnesota's Office of Cannabis Management. Wright County and its cities may not ban dispensaries but may set reasonable zoning and limit registrations to one per 12,500 residents.
Adult-use and medical cannabis retail is licensed by the state Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), with stores opening across Minnesota as licensing rolls out. Under MN Stat. §342.13, a local government may not prohibit a licensed cannabis business, but it may adopt reasonable time, place, and manner zoning and must register retailers operating within its borders. A city or county may, by ordinance, limit the number of retail registrations to no fewer than one for every 12,500 residents, and may set buffers from schools and similar uses. Wright County and cities like Buffalo, Monticello, and St. Michael zone dispensaries into commercial areas rather than banning them, which state law does not allow.
Operating a dispensary without an OCM license is a criminal matter, not a zoning one. A licensed retailer that breaches local zoning or registration conditions faces city or county enforcement and risk to its local registration.
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