Office of Cannabis Management Brings Listening Tour to St. Cloud Saturday

(KNSI) – Minnesota’s cannabis regulator is bringing its statewide listening tour to St. Cloud this weekend, giving residents a chance to ask questions directly to the office overseeing the state’s marijuana industry.

The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) will hold its Connecting with Community listening session Saturday, July 11th, from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott, 404 West St. Germain Street in St. Cloud.

The event is open to everyone and will include an overview of OCM’s regulatory role, an update on the state’s cannabis market, and a question-and-answer session with OCM staff and Executive Director Eric Taubel.

Registration is required, and organizers say spots will be capped due to capacity limits. Anyone planning to bring a guest needs to have that person register separately.

St. Cloud is one stop on a tour that kicked off March 12th in Pine County and Cloquet. OCM staff also met with members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and several cannabis retail dispensaries in Cloquet and Duluth during that leg of the trip, and Taubel and OCM government relations staff sat down with a local legislator. A planned public event at Lake Superior College was postponed after severe weather forced the campus to close for the day.

OCM says more summer stops are planned for Mankato, with a Twin Cities event in the works for autumn.

Minnesota legalized adult-use cannabis in 2023, and OCM has spent the years since building out licensing and regulation for growers, manufacturers, and retailers statewide. The office also continues to run Minnesota’s medical cannabis program, which has been in place since 2014 and now serves more than 56,000 patients.

To register, click here.

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