Minnesota officials have issued the state's first recreational marijuana business license following the enactment of legalization in 2023. The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) announced on Wednesday that it has issued the license to Herb Quest, LLC, a cultivation microbusiness.
"Issuing the first business license is a major milestone for the office," OCM Interim Director Eric Taubel said in a press release.
"With our first licensed cultivator now able to begin growing plants, and more than 600 businesses within the final steps of completing their applications and securing approvals from local governments, we are now seeing the first pieces of Minnesota's adult-use market fall into place," he said.
Additionally, OCM said it's taking further steps to build up in the industry and create opportunities to entrepreneurs, including opening a new licensing window for cannabis testing facilities, accepting the first applications for marijuana event licenses and verifying more social equity status requests.
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