With floor-to-ceiling windows, minimalist display cases and Chappell Roan playing softly in the background, Sweetleaves feels more like a modern med spa than a cannabis dispensary. It reflects co-founder Adam Hoffman's vision to destigmatize the drug.
The dispensary in Minneapolis' North Loop is closing in on a license that will allow it to sell cannabis flower and other products for adult-use use on top of its current offerings.
But as dispensaries in Duluth and Albert Lea vie to be the first non-tribal business to open its doors for adult-use consumers, industry experts and tribal leaders say product may be in short supply until the next calendar year. The White Earth Band of Chippewa's cannabis company Waabigwan Mashkiki is currently the only fully operational legal source for adult-use flower for state-licensed marijuana retailers in Minnesota.
"We just don't have the product," Jason Tarasek, a cannabis attorney, said to a room of lawyers and lobbyists last month at the annual Cannabis Law Conference in downtown Minneapolis. "We don't have the infrastructure."
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