The city also owns a liquor store, and some of the proceeds benefit city projects.
ANOKA, Minn. — The City of Anoka is breaking ground on a cannabis dispensary Thursday.
Anoka is one of several Minnesota cities that applied for a municipal cannabis license. The city also owns a liquor store which is located near the spot the new dispensary will open.
Kevin Morelli, liquor operation manager for Anoka, spoke with KARE 11 in April about the project. He said some of the money from dispensary sales will go back into city operations and projects.
“It could go into parks, it could back to the general fund, whatever the city council elects to do with the money,” he said. “Just like the liquor operation, the main goal is to just control the sale of the recreational marijuana in the city, and number two, to generate revenue from the sales of that.”
If approved, the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management allows for one privately owned dispensary to operate in Anoka in addition to the one that will be run by the city.
