MN Cannabis June 2026: Walz Omnibus, Anoka & Osseo Municipal Stores, OCM Licensing

Will and the crew break down the busiest month yet for Minnesota cannabis — from Gov. Walz's landmark omnibus bill to the state's first city-run dispensary. Here's everything moving in the MN market as of June 26, 2026. In this episode: OCM has issued 240 licenses out of 3,541 applicants, with 1,332 preliminarily approved and 527 in "qualified" status finishing background checks and labor peace agreements. Gov. Walz signed the 105-page 2026 Omnibus Cannabis Bill on May 26, merging medical and adult-use supply chains so one facility can serve both. The new "macrobusiness" license replaces the medical combo license and caps indoor flowering canopy at 38,000 sq ft (down from 90,000). Starting Aug 1, hemp retailers can sell "large-format" THC beverages — 750 mL+ child-resistant bottles, 17+ servings at up to 5 mg THC each — bridging to the Nov 12 federal hemp-THC restriction. Anoka Cannabis Company, the state's first government-run store, opened Feb 6; Osseo is on deck as the second municipal store with Voyageur Cannabis Services. Flame and Flora opened in Prior Lake in April, owned by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community on tribal land. Legend Technical Services, MN's oldest licensed cannabis testing lab, exited the industry — leaving only three full-panel labs statewide. OCM's CanGrow program has $2M for farmers entering the legal market; plus a myrcene deep-dive and a heads-up on the Legacy Cup at Surly Festival Field on Sept 26. Sources: OCM Lottery Results OCM Cannabis Market Monitor launch Foley Hoag: Walz signs cannabis omnibus MN House Session Daily: large-format THC beverages MPR News: Anoka municipal dispensary MJBizDaily: MN municipal dispensaries CBS News: Flame and Flora in Prior Lake Cann.dev: MN cannabis licensing June 2026 OCM CanGrow program Peer-reviewed myrcene arthritis study Minnesota Monthly: Legacy Cup Subscribe: mncannabishub.com Full transcript Will: —and that's the thing, like, you can actually walk into a city-run store now and buy flower. In Minnesota. That's wild to me. Matilda: Anoka, right? The municipal one. Will: Anoka Cannabis Company, yeah. Opened back in February. Matilda: And it's literally the city? Like, the city of Anoka is your budtender's boss? Will: Pretty much. It's the first government-run cannabis store in the state. Flower, vapes, edibles, drinks — the whole deal. Matilda: Ope. That's a sentence I didn't think I'd hear in my lifetime. Will: Right? Matilda: I mean, good for them, but also... it's a little surreal. Your tax dollars are now, like, stocking shelves with gummies. Will: And Osseo's next. Matilda: Wait, Osseo too? Will: Yeah, Osseo's lining up to be the second municipal store. They're partnering with Voyageur Cannabis Services to actually run it. Targeting sometime mid-year. Matilda: Huh. Okay. So the model's spreading. Will: It's spreading. And on top of that you've got Flame and Flora — that opened in Prior Lake in April. Matilda: That's the Shakopee Mdewakanton one? Will: Yep. Owned by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, sitting on tribal land. Matilda: So in a couple months we got — government store, tribal store, and a bunch of private folks all trying to open at once. Will: It is a moment. It really is. Matilda: And meanwhile the OCM is just... drowning. Will: Well — drowning's one word. Working through it is another. Matilda: Will. Come on. Will: Okay, okay. The numbers ARE a lot. Matilda: Walk me through it. Because every time I look at the dashboard my eyes glaze over. Will: So mid-June, the Office of Cannabis Management — that's the OCM — they've issued two-hundred-forty licenses. Matilda: Out of? Will: Out of three-thousand-five-hundred-forty-one applicants. Matilda: Wait — say that again? Will: Three-thousand-five-hundred-forty-one people applied. Two-forty have actual licenses. Matilda: That is... a brutal ratio. Will: It's a ratio. But there's more to it. About thirteen-hundred have been preliminarily approved. Another five-hundred-twenty-seven are in this "qualified" status, doing background checks and labor peace agreements. Matilda: Okay so it's not like only two-forty got past the velvet rope. There's a pipeline. Will: There's a pipeline. There's also three-hundred-eighty-seven that got denied, and another seven-hundred-thirty-six that just didn't get picked in the capped-license lotteries. Matilda: Right, the lotteries. Because some license types are capped. Will: Capped, yeah. Matilda: Cool, cool. So you can do everything right and just... lose a raffle. Will: Welcome to regulated cannabis. Matilda: Uff da. Will: But — credit where it's due — OCM did launch this public Cannabis Market Monitor dashboard. You can actually go look at licensing, retail sales, production metrics. Like, the data's out there. Matilda: That's actually nice. Will: It's nice! It's transparent. I'll take it. Matilda: Okay so that's the licensing side. What about the big bill? Will: The omnibus. Matilda: The omnibus. Will: Walz signed it May twenty-sixth. A hundred and five pages. Matilda: A hundred and five. Will: A hundred and five pages of cannabis law. Reshaping the whole industry. Matilda: Okay. Headline? Will: Headline is they merged the medical and adult-use supply chains. Matilda: Meaning what for a normal person? Will: Meaning if a business has a medical endorsement, they can serve patients and regular adult-use customers from the same facility. One building, both sides of the counter. Matilda: Oh. That's a big deal. Will: Huge. Matilda: Because before, those were like... two separate worlds. Will: Two separate worlds. Separate grower...