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Page 26 <br /> <br />Additional Information – Tobacco Sales <br />Penalties Related to a Revocation or <br />Suspension of Tobacco License <br />A cannabis or hemp business license holder may also hold a <br />tobacco license under Minnesota Statutes Chapter 461. <br />However, tobacco cannot be sold in the cannabis retail <br />location. Under section 461.12, Minnesota law allows a <br />licensee’s authority to sell tobacco and related products <br />under the section to be suspended and possibly revoked if <br />the licensee also holds a cannabis or hemp business license <br />under Chapter 342 or is a registrant under section 151.72 <br />and that license or registration is revoked. This penalty also <br />applies if the license holder is convicted of an offense under <br />section 151.72 or has been convicted under any other <br />statute for illegal sale of cannabis products. <br />Clarifying Cannabis Businesses Authority <br />Cannabis businesses will be able to sell vaporizers without <br />a tobacco license. Under Minnesota Statutes, section <br />342.27, subd. 3(a), retail licensees are permitted to sell <br />cannabis paraphernalia. Cannabis paraphernalia includes <br />“all equipment, products, and materials of any kind that <br />are knowingly or intentionally used primarily in ... <br />ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing cannabis <br />products into the human body” [Minnesota Statutes, <br />section 342.01, subd. 18(2)]. Therefore, Minnesota <br />Statutes, section 342.27, subd. 3(a) specifically authorizes <br />retail licensees to sell cannabis paraphernalia, which in <br />this instance includes vaporizers.