Does Minnesota have the weirdest combination of alcohol and marijuana laws in the country?
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« on: August 31, 2022, 12:54:23 AM »

Yeah I was thinking today of how strange the two are when taken in conjecture. Both are weird and quirky on their own...but there's like zero consistency.

The notable laws:

Alcohol:
-Mostly can only be sold off-sale in designated and licensed liquor stores. The only alcohol that can be sold in a normal grocery store/gas station/convenience store are wine coolers and 3.2 beer (the only state in the country where this is still largely sold.) Some grocery stores and department stores like Target get around this by having a designated attached liquor store with a separate entrance, but this is only an option if they have quite a bit of space.
-Liquor stores can only be open 8AM-10PM Mon-Sat and noon to 6PM on Sundays (couldn't be open at all on Sundays until about six weeks ago.)
-Both bars and liquor stores are very heavily restricted with distance requirements from schools or malls or types of businesses, etc. Restaurants that serve alcohol are exempt from this but they have to prove they don't make above a certain percentage of their income from alcohol.
-Can only be sold in movie theaters or all ages music venues if it can only be bought in a separate location that's open only to 21+, and one can only bring one drink at a time to the main floor.
-Requires a liquor license and following all sorts of standards and regulation.
-Consuming alcohol in public (like on the street) is illegal (although almost never enforced) but simply being intoxicated in public is not (unless you're driving/engaging in disorderly conduct/etc.)

Marijuana:
-Non-medical smokable marijuana is illegal, though decriminalized. (Also rarely enforced in most of the urban areas, but that's not part of the de jure law.)
-Edibles are legal...as long as they are derived from hemp, consist of no more than 5mg per edible and 50mg per package.
-Possession of edibles that are NOT hemp-derived is a felony.
-There is no restriction whatsoever on where legal edibles can be sold*. They're not only sold in many gas stations and convenience stores, (not that in Minneapolis, St. Paul and most inner suburbs, it's illegal to sell even tobacco in gas stations and convenience stores unless it's a separate attached store ala liquor stores, but perfectly legal to sell edibles in the store proper), but also some grocery stores, served as drinks at movie theaters, in bars (most won't allow consumption on site, but this isn't a legal thing so much as an insurance liability thing, also probably going to change soon especially with music venues looking at offering THC drinks) and record stores, they could even be sold at a kiosk at a mall next to a Build-a-Bear...oh wait actually that isn't theoretical at all, there's actually such a place! You could theoretically sell them out of the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a preschool as long as you followed the other laws and only sold to people 21+.
-No license whatsoever required to sell them. None. Opening a hair salon is more regulated.
-Legally can not be sold mixed with alcohol, although as noted nothing is preventing bars from selling them or THC drinks on their own. Also restaurants are not allowed to mix THC with prepared food, but can sell them on their own, and some coffee shops and bakeries do.

I find it funny not only how inconsistent they are with each other...but how inconsistent the marijuana law is on its own. Look at how two very similar things are either completely legal or a felony, and another form meanwhile is just illegal but decriminalized.

*Statewide at least. Some cities have passed restrictions.
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