The Office of Cannabis Management announced Wednesday it’s canceling the marijuana license preapproval process after lawsuits held up the lottery scheduled for late last month.

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Minnesota will not hold a lottery to give early approval for recreational cannabis business licenses based on social equity criteria, state cannabis regulators announced Wednesday. The move could mean months of delay for legal sales in the state. The state last month started taking early applications from prospective businesses who could demonstrate they were from a high-poverty area, a veteran or negatively affected by the prohibition of cannab…

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By Estelle Timar-Wilcox and Brian Bakst, Minnesota Public Radio News Minnesota’s nascent marijuana market is likely to take longer to launch — both getting plants into the ground and products into approved stores — as state regulators announced revamped plans for granting licenses. The new setup outlined Wednesday will push key decisions into late spring or early summer of next year. That seemingly takes off the table an early 2025 launch to ret…

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The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management has announced key steps to launch the state's cannabis industry, including ending the preapproval process and moving forward with a standard licensing cycle, while preserving some of the social equity benefits initially tied to the preapproval system. The post Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management Announces Next Steps for Cannabis Licensing Process appeared first on Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.

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Prompted by legal challenges over the state’s recreational cannabis licensing process, Minnesota’s regulatory agency says the issuance of permits will be delayed for months, quashing expectations of the market opening in early 2025. Under a new timeline, licenses will be issued via lottery sometime between May and June, the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) announced Wednesday.   ADVERTISEMENT    The agency initially was expected to c

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Prompted by legal challenges over the state's recreational cannabis licensing process, Minnesota's regulatory agency says the issuance of permits will be delayed for months, quashing expectations of the market opening in early 2025. Minnesota recreational cannabis licensing to be delayed for months is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs

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Yesterday, in the grand American tradition of bungled, cannabis social equity programs, the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) canceled its social equity applicant lottery. In its announcement, OCM pivoted to an early 2025 lottery combining social equity and general applicants. This development was no real surprise, following a court order delaying the preapproval lottery last month. It’s

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/68aasRt50AtRSQEFWzOyYY?si=0cdadd4acd784899   We recorded this interview with Jen Reise on Tuesday and then had to travel midweek. By the time i'd edited the interview at an airport and got the interview live it appears the state have stepped back on the lottery approach... You've read the short reports and the…

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The Marijuana Herald - Marijuana news and information Minnesota’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) has cancelled its lottery for early marijuana business licenses intended to go to social equity recipients.  The cancellation follows lawsuits claiming certain applicants were unfairly excluded, leading a Ramsey County judge to halt the lottery initially scheduled for late last month. OCM explained that the intended benefits of preapproval licen…

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Minnesota Cancels Early Marijuana License Lottery Amid Legal Challenges

Minnesota cannabis consumers will have to wait even longer to easily access legal pot. An initial plan by the state’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) to give certain qualified license applicants a head start has gone up in smoke following a series of lawsuits. RELATED: Illinois weed law creates confusing contradiction On Wednesday, the OCM announced it was abandoning an early pre-approval lottery set to take place in November. The idea was t…

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