Cannabis dispensaries won't open in Minneapolis until 2025. However, the city took a significant regulatory step Thursday by adopting a set of zoning rules that will apply to cannabis sellers, manufacturers, and other related businesses.
The regulations do not impose a distance restriction between individual cannabis dispensaries.
Council member Aurin Chowdhury offered the amendment that eliminates a proposed 300-foot buffer between dispensaries. She said she wants to ensure local business owners — who have already opened low-potency hemp stores and want to become dispensaries — don't get pushed out by someone who gets a license first and is within that buffer zone.
Council member Katie Cashman said she doesn't want out-of-state businesses "gobbling up the existing spaces" at the expense of the over 500 existing hemp retailers in the city who may want to venture into the dispensary business.
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