Category Archives: Retailer / Dispensary

Along US Highway 218 near Austin, Hidden Gardens Micro runs a microbusiness retail operation in Mower County. The shop is a verified social equity business, Minnesota’s designation for owners from communities most affected by past cannabis enforcement. For southern Minnesota — a region with far fewer licensed storefronts than the metro — Hidden Gardens provides a state-licensed, locally owned retail option close to home.

Cottage Grove’s growing east-metro community now includes Holstrum LLC, a cannabis retailer licensed under Minnesota’s microbusiness class. Located on East Point Douglas Road in Washington County, the shop operates at the small, independent scale the license is designed for. For residents of the southeast metro, Holstrum offers a state-licensed, locally owned option for adult-use cannabis without a drive into the core cities.

Richfield’s Lyndale Avenue is where you’ll find Holy Smokes Cannabis, a microbusiness retailer operated by Lion Cannabis LLC. The Hennepin County shop is a verified social equity business, a Minnesota designation recognizing owners from communities hit hardest by past cannabis enforcement. In one of the metro’s most accessible first-ring suburbs, Holy Smokes pairs licensed adult-use retail with the local, independent ownership the state’s program aims to promote.

The name is confident, and the credentials are real: Really Dope LLC holds a Minnesota microbusiness retail license for its Dale Street location in Saint Paul. Ramsey County’s capital city has become a hub for independent cannabis retail, and this shop adds a licensed, locally owned storefront to the mix. As a microbusiness, Really Dope operates at the small, community-oriented scale the state’s license structure was built to support.

Saint Clair Avenue in Saint Paul is home to Flowerz Cannabis Co., a cannabis retailer licensed under Minnesota’s microbusiness class through Hyland Company LLC. The Ramsey County shop fits the neighborhood-storefront model the license encourages: small footprint, independent ownership, state oversight. Flowerz brings licensed adult-use cannabis retail to one of the capital city’s established residential districts, giving Saint Paul another locally owned storefront in Minnesota’s growing legal market.

True North Greens L.L.C does business as Spring Lake Park Dispensary, a microbusiness retailer on Central Avenue NE in Spring Lake Park. Serving Anoka County’s inner north metro, the shop operates under Minnesota’s small-business cannabis license class, which favors independent, locally scaled operators. The result is a hometown dispensary — state-licensed and community-sized — for one of the metro’s classic first-ring suburbs.

On Grand Avenue in Saint Paul, The Grey Area LLC operates as a licensed cannabis microbusiness retailer. The Ramsey County shop is also a verified social equity business, a state designation for owners from communities most affected by prohibition-era enforcement. For one of the Twin Cities’ best-known commercial streets, The Grey Area adds a licensed, independently owned cannabis option with neighborhood-scale roots and full state oversight.

Tucked into the bluff country of southeastern Minnesota, Do Be Kind serves La Crescent from its Chestnut Street storefront. The Houston County shop holds a microbusiness retail license and is a verified social equity business under Minnesota’s cannabis program. The name signals the approach: a small, community-minded dispensary bringing licensed adult-use retail to the state’s scenic river-town corner along the Mississippi.

On Fridley’s University Avenue NE corridor, SPACE OUT THC LLC holds a Minnesota microbusiness retail license. The microbusiness class is the state’s small-operator tier, designed to keep independent, community-scale shops in the mix as the legal market grows. For Anoka County residents in the north metro, SPACE OUT THC adds a licensed, locally operated option for adult-use cannabis retail with full state oversight behind it.

Fridley shoppers have a licensed microbusiness retailer in HighRx LLC, located on University Avenue NE in Anoka County. Minnesota’s microbusiness license is built for small, locally owned operators, and HighRx brings that neighborhood-scale approach to cannabis retail in the north metro. As a state-licensed adult-use shop, it serves the Fridley community with the accountability and oversight that come with Office of Cannabis Management licensure.