Mark Eide is struggling to keep the lights on at his downtown Minneapolis dispensary. For the past three years, he's been selling low-potency hemp products at his store, In-Dispensary. Now, with a cannabis retail license in hand, he's transitioning into selling adult-use cannabis. The only problem is there's no product to sell.
"All day long I take phone calls from people to tell them no, we don't have the product," said Eide, who got his license on Aug. 12. "Then they want to know when I'm going to have the product and I have no clue."
His dispensary was the first retail microbusiness to get licensed in Minneapolis. Eide is one of 40 licensed dispensaries who are waiting for more supply to be available — either from cultivators who need more time to grow or from the few who have product they're willing to sell.
Minnesota is still in its early stages of adult-use cannabis rollout, which means supply is few and far between. For Eide, that may mean closing up shop before being able to sell adult-use cannabis. He's already had to let go of two employees, including his brother, to keep his doors open.
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