Who regulates cannabis retail in Minnesota?

Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) is the state cannabis regulator for Minnesota. Official site: https://mn.gov/ocm.

What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Minnesota use?

Minnesota uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.

Is CannAgent available for Minnesota dispensaries?

Minnesota is a coming-soon market: the MN regulatory depth on this page is current and the code build is queued (track-and-trace vendor approval is in flight). Join the waitlist on this page and we'll reach out when MN goes active.

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Minnesota onboarding queue is open — full launch pending METRC vendor approval.

The MN regulatory depth on this page is current. Code build is queued; METRC vendor approval is in flight (6-12 week timeline). Join the waitlist below and we’ll cut you in when MN goes active.

OCM

Coming soon

Minnesota OCM-aware dispensary platform

Native compliance hooks for Minnesota OCM rules. METRC traceability, 15% adult-use gross-receipts tax + 6.875% state sales + variable local, the multi-tier license topology HF 100 created (microbusiness / mezzo / cultivator / mfr / retailer), and the lower-potency hemp-edible lane Minnesota uniquely supports.

Regulator

Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (OCM)

https://mn.gov/ocm ↗

We re-check this regulatorweekly— active rulemaking / transition / year-over-year schedule

Statutes that bite

Citation	Subject
Minn. Stat. Ch. 342	HF 100 — Minnesota Cannabis Act (adult-use, 2023)
Minn. Stat. §152.22	Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program statute
Minn. Rules Ch. 9810	OCM cannabis program rules
Minn. Stat. §295.81	15% Cannabis Gross Receipts Tax statute (raised from 10% effective July 1, 2025)

Tax stack

Excise

15% Minnesota Cannabis Gross Receipts Tax (Minn. Stat. §295.81; raised from 10% effective July 1, 2025) — applied at retail on adult-use only. Medical patients exempt.

Sales / Use

6.875% Minnesota state sales tax — applied on top of the 15% gross receipts tax. Total state-stack: 21.875% on adult-use; medical sales pay nothing.

Local option

Local sales tax stacks vary by jurisdiction (Minneapolis ~0.5%, Hennepin County ~0.5%, etc.) — auto-derived per store address. Total combined adult-use stack typically 22-23.5% in metro areas.

Compliance topics surfaced in-platform

Age 21+ adult-use / 18+ medical patient ID verification with split lanes
METRC tag handoff + manifest reconciliation per Minn. Rules Ch. 9810
Patient registry lookup hook (Minnesota Medical Cannabis Patient ID)
Lower-potency hemp-derived edible (LPHE) lane separation — Minnesota uniquely allows ≤5mg THC hemp-derived edibles outside the cannabis license, which creates a pre-existing-market product-source compliance topic
License-class flagging — microbusiness / mezzobusiness / cultivator / manufacturer / retailer / wholesaler, with social-equity sub-tiers across each
Daily inventory reconciliation export shaped for OCM record-keeping

What ships on day-1 for MN

Adult-use + medical product lanes with separate tax stacks (21.875%+ vs exempt)
License-class-aware reporting (microbusiness / mezzobusiness / cultivator / manufacturer / retailer / wholesaler)
Lower-potency hemp-edible (LPHE) lane separation at sale receipt
METRC-shaped inventory + sale receipt mirror
Daily reconciliation report (auto-runs at close)
Manager write-up assistant configurable to MN labor + OCM rule taxonomy

We serve here — honestly

We don’t operate stores in Minnesota. We do follow OCM bulletins, the multi-tier license framework under HF 100 (microbusiness / mezzobusiness / cultivator / manufacturer / retailer / wholesaler with social-equity sub-tiers), the lower-potency-hemp-edible (LPHE) lane that’s Minnesota-unique, the 21.875%+ combined adult-use stack, and the medical-vs-adult-use lane split. CannAgent ships MN support with the same compliance discipline we apply to WSLCB — and we’ll say it directly when something’s off.

Operator playbooks

Compliance ops playbook

State traceability reconciliation — the daily, weekly, monthly discipline

Buyer scorecard

Picking a cannabis POS: the 7-question scorecard

Migration playbook

POS migration: a 4-week playbook for cannabis dispensaries

Operations deep-dive

Cash discipline at a cannabis dispensary: variance, escalation, audit

Minnesota cannabis retail — common questions

Who regulates cannabis retail in Minnesota?: Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) is the state cannabis regulator for Minnesota. Official site: https://mn.gov/ocm.
What seed-to-sale track-and-trace system does Minnesota use?: Minnesota uses METRC (Franwell) for seed-to-sale traceability — the de-facto standard across most regulated states. CannAgent maps its inventory and transfer events to METRC's required fields.
What cannabis taxes apply to retail in Minnesota?: 15% Minnesota Cannabis Gross Receipts Tax (Minn. Stat. §295.81; raised from 10% effective July 1, 2025) — applied at retail on adult-use only. Medical patients exempt. 6.875% Minnesota state sales tax — applied on top of the 15% gross receipts tax. Total state-stack: 21.875% on adult-use; medical sales pay nothing. Local sales tax stacks vary by jurisdiction (Minneapolis ~0.5%, Hennepin County ~0.5%, etc.) — auto-derived per store address. Total combined adult-use stack typically 22-23.5% in metro areas.
Is CannAgent available for Minnesota dispensaries?: Minnesota is a coming-soon market: the MN regulatory depth on this page is current and the code build is queued (track-and-trace vendor approval is in flight). Join the waitlist on this page and we'll reach out when MN goes active.

Join the MN waitlist.

Code build is queued, METRC vendor approval is in flight. Lock your spot in the onboarding queue — we’ll reach out when MNgoes active and you’ll be ahead of the public launch.

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