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The legal minimum age in Minnesota for purchasing adult-use cannabis or hemp-derived products.
What is 21?
The small, crystal-like hair structures on the cannabis flower that produce resin, cannabinoids, and terpenes.
What are trichomes?
The recently renamed division within the agency dedicated to expanding opportunity, community reinvestment, and economic growth across Minnesota.
What is Community & Economic Development (CED)?
Known for its striking red bill, gray head, and unique spot on Minnesota's license plates, this is Minnesota's official state bird.
What is the Loon (Common Loon)?
This annual festival celebrating agricultural arts and state pride features a massive building dedicated to Minnesota crops every late August.
What is the Minnesota State Fair?
This type of testing checks batch samples for heavy metals, pesticides, mold, and microbials to ensure consumer safety.
What is a Full Panel Test (or Full Panel Testing)?
Also Accept: Certificate of Analysis (COA) / Contaminant & Safety Testing / Compliance Testing.
This non-intoxicating cannabinoid is widely studied for its soothing properties and is abbreviated as "CBD."
What is Cannabidiol?
The primary official publication used by Minnesota state agencies to publish proposed administrative rules, notices, and executive orders.
What is the State Register?
Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota is famous for being the official headwaters and starting point of this massive American river.
What is the Mississippi River?
This famous fictional Minnesota city is the home of the Golden Girls character Rose Nylund.
What is St. Olaf?
Under Minnesota HF 100, lower-potency hemp-derived beverages are capped at this maximum amount of total THC per package or container.
What is 10 milligrams? (5mg per serving, max 2 servings/10mg per package)
The natural compound responsible for the distinct mango, herbal, or earthy aroma in many plant strains.
What is Myrcene?
This essential division handles incoming business filings, eligibility reviews, and issuing official authorizations for cannabis businesses.
What is Licensing (or Licensing & Operations)?
The total number of federally recognized Tribal Nations within the geographic boundaries of Minnesota
What is 11? (7 Ojibwe Bands and 4 Dakota Communities)
This beloved Minneapolis-born comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz debuted in 1950 and featured Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
What is Peanuts?
This term describes the required system used by regulators and businesses to track cannabis products from cultivation all the way to retail sales.
What is Seed-to-Sale (or Metrc)?
The body’s complex cell-signaling system that interacts with plant cannabinoids, named after the plant that led to its discovery.
What is the Endocannabinoid System (ECS)?
The formal window required by statute where the public and industry stakeholders can submit official feedback on proposed administrative rules.
What is the public comment period?
Minnesota’s official state grain, harvested natively by hand using traditional canoe methods in lakes and slow-moving rivers across the state.
What is wild rice (Manoomin)?
Mall of America in Bloomington was built on the former site of this major Minnesota sports stadium.
What is Metropolitan Stadium (or Met Stadium)?
Minnesota statute explicitly prohibits cannabis packaging from using cartoon characters or designs that primarily appeal to this demographic.
What are minors (or children)?
Unlike Delta-9 THC, this minor cannabinoid—abbreviated CBN—is formed as THC degrades over time and is often marketed for sleep support.
What is Cannabinol?
The Minnesota state fiscal year begins on the first day of this month every calendar year.
What is July 1st?
Minnesota's state motto, "L’Étoile du Nord," appears on the state seal and translates from French to mean this astronomical guide.
What is the "Star of the North" (or North Star)?
Before becoming a powerhouse state for agriculture and industry, Minnesota was officially admitted as the 32nd U.S. state in this year.
What is 1858?