***Minnesota established its Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) in 2023 to interpret cannabis laws and set the rules. As the state’s cannabis market takes shape, influential (and colorful) names have emerged on the “craft” side—the small entrepreneurs and growers. “Most markets that launch adult-use cannabis have pretty big medical [cannabis] programs,” unlike Minnesota, Taubel says. Really, he is the hope of Minnesota cannabis: an SEA, living in an area deemed disproportionately impacted by prohibition, he says (and, as a bonus, he’s had a cannabis possession charge). The Craft DifferenceMany say federal legalization of adult-use cannabis is inevitable, possibly happening in the next decade.