2025 Minnesota Statutes

342.43 HEMP BUSINESS LICENSE TYPES; MULTIPLE LICENSES.

Subdivision 1.License types.

The office shall issue the following types of hemp business licenses:

(1) lower-potency hemp edible manufacturer;

(2) lower-potency hemp edible wholesaler; and

(3) lower-potency hemp edible retailer.

Subd. 2.Multiple licenses; limits.

(a) A person, cooperative, or business may hold any combination of a lower-potency hemp edible manufacturer, a lower-potency hemp edible wholesaler, and a lower-potency hemp edible retailer license.

(b) Nothing in this section prohibits a person, cooperative, or business from holding a lower-potency hemp edible manufacturer license, a lower-potency hemp edible wholesaler license, a lower-potency hemp edible retailer license, or any combination of those licenses, and also holding a license to cultivate industrial hemp issued pursuant to chapter 18K.

(c) Nothing in this section prohibits a person, cooperative, or business from holding a lower-potency hemp edible manufacturer license, a lower-potency hemp edible wholesaler license, a lower-potency hemp edible retailer license, or any combination of those licenses, and also holding any other license, including but not limited to a license to prepare or sell food; sell tobacco, tobacco-related devices, electronic delivery devices as defined in section 609.685, subdivision 1, and nicotine and lobelia delivery products as described in section 609.6855; or manufacture or sell alcoholic beverages as defined in section 340A.101, subdivision 2.

(d) A person, cooperative, or business holding a lower-potency hemp edible manufacturer license, a lower-potency hemp edible wholesaler license, a lower-potency hemp edible retailer license, or any combination of those licenses, may not hold a cannabis business license.

Subd. 3.Exception; municipal or county licenses.

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a city or county that establishes, owns, or operates a municipal cannabis store may also hold a lower-potency hemp edible retailer license.

History:

2023 c 63 art 1 s 43; 2025 c 31 s 69-71