The City Council of Osseo, Minnesota is considering whether to open the state’s first municipally run marijuana retailer—a move leaders say would provide more local control over the look, feel and operations of the store.
“There’s not really a way for a community to say, ‘No, we don’t want this type of a store here,’” Councilmember Mark Schulz said in an interview with local TV station FOX 9. “If we are going to have to have a store and our public safety department is apprehensive, why not give them a seat at the table?”
Schulz called the plan “a viable option for the community to be able to have a hands-on, hard stake in how it operates in their community.”
Under Minnesota’s cannabis legalization law adopted last year, municipalities cannot ban marijuana businesses outright. They can set limits on the number of stores, but there must be at least one retail license available for every 12,500 residents.
Osseo, a suburb of Minneapolis, has a population of about 2,700 people, according to the 2020 Census, meaning officials may not necessarily need to allow a store at all.
Unlike most other states’ cannabis laws, Minnesota’s also specifically allows municipalities
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