The Prairie Island Cannabis Campus sits on 13 acres of land south of the Twin Cities metro. It's a new venture for the Prairie Island Indian Community into Minnesota's cannabis marketplace.
"It's exciting, nerve-racking," said Blake Johnson, a tribal member and president of Prairie Island CBH Inc. Johnson hopes the economic boost from cannabis sales creates change in the community for their more than 1,100 tribal members.
"Provide basic services like health care, education, those types of things are important to tribes; this gives us the opportunity to grow that," Johnson said. "Our hopes are to look out for the next seven generations of our community."
The financial projections are kept close to their vest, but Johnson described it as a "significant opportunity" to bring in income.
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