CLOQUET — The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa entered an agreement with the state of Minnesota allowing the band to distribute and sell its tribally grown cannabis off reservation and across Minnesota’s burgeoning cannabis market.

The compact, signed Oct. 20 by Gov. Tim Walz and Fond du Lac Band Chairman Bruce Savage, creates a legal framework for the band to expand its cannabis operations by selling its product to dispensaries across Minnesota and forging a pathway to open off-reservation dispensaries.

“It is really a unique type of relationship that we are establishing between the tribes and the state here in Minnesota,” said Josh Collins, director of communications for the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management, the state agency regulating Minnesota’s cannabis industry.

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