Gov. Tim Walz signed a compact Tuesday that outlines how the state of Minnesota and the White Earth Nation will work together to regulate the sale of cannabis.
The agreement clears the way for White Earth’s cannabis products company Waabigwan Mashkiki to open an off-reservation dispensary for cannabis products in Moorhead, which could happen as soon as this weekend.
That’s according to Zach Wilson, CEO of Waabigwan Mashkiki, which means medicine flower in Ojibwe.
“We are essentially able to go live statewide,” Wilson said Tuesday after the signing of the compact was announced.
In addition to Moorhead, the tribe said it would be opening a dispensary in St. Cloud as well.
The compact Walz signed was the first tribal-state compact authorized under Minnesota’s 2023 cannabis law.
The agreement outlines how the state and tribe will promote a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship to regulate cannabis and promote public health and safety.
Items the dispensary is expected to sell include cannabis flower — the smokable buds plucked from a flowering marijuana plant — and pre-rolled cannabis cigarettes.
In setting up the dispensary, the tribe installed extraction equipment that will take cannabis biomass and turn it into CBD oils, tinctures and other desired cannabis compounds. Some of those compounds can be used to make cannabis gummies, cannabis distillates for vaping cartridges and live resins.
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