Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management Issues Rejections to Majority of Social Equity Applicants

The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (“OCM”) has begun issuing final denials to the overwhelming majority of previously qualified social equity applicants (“SEA”s) ahead of its first statewide cannabis lottery on December 2 for 280 available “preapproval” cannabis licenses. Per reporting from MJ Biz Daily, “The applicants who are barred from the lottery failed to…