St. Paul considers limitations on smoking marijuana outdoors
Just weeks after it became legal in Minnesota, St. Paul is considering a proposed ordinance that would limit where you can smoke cannabis in public.
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Just weeks after it became legal in Minnesota, St. Paul is considering a proposed ordinance that would limit where you can smoke cannabis in public.
Just weeks after Minnesota legalized marijuana, one of the Twin Cities could snuff out smoking pot out in the open.
St. Paul residents on Wednesday testified during a public hearing about a proposal that would prohibit smoking cannabis in public parks and near businesses, the latest effort by a city to put guardrails around use since recreational marijuana became legal in Minnesota earlier this summer.
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The Duluth City Council has voted to ban recreational marijuana smoking in most public places in the city.
When legal marijuana sales start, the state will cash in from cannabis taxes. But lawmakers want to re-invest that revenue in those most harmed by prohibition.
When legal marijuana sales start, the state will cash in from cannabis taxes. But lawmakers want to re-invest that revenue in those most harmed by prohibition.
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With marijuana now legal, Minnesotans aren't wasting any time beginning to grow the plant at home.
With marijuana now legal, Minnesotans aren't wasting any time beginning to grow the plant at home.
Officials in White Earth report the dispensary at Waagigwan Mashkiki Dispensary in Mahnomen opened on Monday for medicinal cannabis patients, but began also selling recreational cannabis Thursday morning.
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Recreational marijuana became legal in Minnesota Tuesday, but that doesn't mean businesses are clear to start selling weed yet.
Most marijuana dispensaries likely won't show up until 2025, but some Minnesotans argue selling home-grown weed is, in fact, legal right now.
Most marijuana dispensaries likely won't show up until 2025, but some Minnesotans argue selling home-grown weed is, in fact, legal right now.
Hundreds of customers flocked to the Red Lake reservation on Tuesday to buy marijuana at the first retail dispensary in the state on the same day recreational use became legal.
Hundreds of customers flocked to the Red Lake Reservation on Tuesday to buy marijuana at the first retail dispensary in Minnesota, on the same day recreational use became legal.
Cultivated CBD, like many others this week, is expanding its business and selling those sought-after seeds. The owner there, Anthony Newby, says they've already sold 12,000 seeds so far since preorders began Monday night.
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