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www.publichealthlawcenter.org 18Lower-Potency Hemp Edibles & Cannabis: Minnesota City Retailers <br />Delivery Sales Prohibition (continued) <br />of Cannabis Management. State law prohibits local jurisdictions from outright prohibiting any <br />cannabis businesses. However, cities and counties may have the authority to prohibit delivery sales <br />within their jurisdiction as an effective means of curtailing underage access to approved products. <br />A licensed cannabis delivery business may still be located within the jurisdiction to deliver outside <br />the boundaries of the jurisdiction, where permitted. This approach recognizes the challenges <br />inherent in trying to effectively monitor online retailers and prevent underage access to the <br />vast market of hemp-derived THC products found online, acknowledging that age verification <br />processes do not prevent underage persons from obtaining these and similar products online. <br />(6) By any other means, to any other person, or in any other manner or form <br />prohibited by state or other local law, ordinance provision, or other regulation. <br />(B) Legal age. No person shall sell any approved product to any person under the age of 21. <br />Businesses licensed or endorsed to sell medical cannabinoid products may sell medical <br />cannabinoid products to persons under age 21 who are enrolled in the medical registry <br />program pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 342.24, subd. 1. <br /> Provision that strictly conforms to the state law <br />Minimum Legal Sales Age Higher than Age 21 <br />State law sets a minimum legal sales age for adult-use cannabis and lower-potency hemp edibles <br />at age 21. There is nothing in the law that prohibits a local jurisdiction from setting a higher <br />minimum legal sales age. Evidence supports a higher minimum legal sales age of 25. <br />For instance, frequent cannabis use between the ages of 14 and 21 is associated with lower high <br />school completion and college graduation and subsequent lower income levels at age 25 (reference <br />provided below). If the minimum legal sales age of 25 is enacted, then other provisions should <br />also be adjusted, such as minimum clerk age and store ownership.   If MLSA of 25 is enacted, then <br />other provisions could also be adjusted, such as minimum clerk age and store ownership. <br />Edmund Silins et al., Young Adult Sequelae of Adolescent Cannabis Use: An Integrative Analysis, 1 The Lancet Psychiatry <br />286-93 (2014), DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(14)70307-4;David Fergusson & Joseph Boden, Cannabis Use and Later Life Out- <br />comes, 103Addiction 969-76 (2008), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18482420. <br />September 2024