Almost half of the applicants for a marijuana social-equity license in Minnesota don’t live in the state.
Of the 1,817 parties who submitted a pre-application to the state Office of Cannabis Management before an Aug. 12 deadline, only 802 are Minnesota residents, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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Just 282 of these applicants will eventually receive permits, which will be awarded via a lottery, regulators told Minnesota Public Radio.
According to MPR, applicants could qualify for a social-equity permit in one of five ways:
39% are veterans. 29% have prior marijuana-related offenses. 25% live in areas designated as high poverty or with high rates of marijuana arrests. 6% have dependents with marijuana-related convictions. 1% are small farmers, with gross sales between $5,000
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