As marijuana becomes legal in Minnesota, cheering, dancing at Red Lake dispensary
The northern Minnesota reservation opened the first recreational marijuana dispensary in the state Tuesday
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August 2, 2023
Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune
From left, John Wyllie of Bemidji, Eugene Sayers of Red Lake and Bill Skinner of Ferguson shared a joint and a blunt before the state's first recreational cannabis dispensary opened Tuesday at NativeCare in Red Lake, Minn.
RED LAKE, Minn. - Bruce Klajda drove from Bemidji to be among the first Minnesotans to buy recreational marijuana in Red Lake on Tuesday, and he had plans for the gummies he intended to buy: dice them up and put them in his cereal.
Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune
Members of the Red Lake Nation Tribal Council took photos with representatives from the Prairie Island Indian Community, who came to show support, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023 at NativeCare in Red Lake, Minn.
"I have severe osteoarthritis and nothing seems to be working," he said, so he's thrilled to be so close to the state's first recreational marijuana dispensary.
A line of more than a hundred people, many cheering and dancing, queued up outside Red Lake Nation's NativeCare more than an hour before it opened. It was a festive scene with food trucks, a jewelry peddler and the tribe's radio station broadcasting live, with fireworks to mark the first sale.
The northern Minnesota reservation opened the first recreational marijuana dispensary in the state Tuesday, the first day Minnesotans could legally possess or grow the plant.
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