https://mn.gov/ en-us https://mn.gov/ https://mn.gov/ 2026-09-10T13:28:46Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-767385 This guidance memo provides best practices and allowances for license holders endorsed for manufacturing who wish to perform additional processing or extraction on spent flower (i.e., biomass) after an initial extraction, including information on selling, transferring and tracking the resulting spent biomass. 2026-09-08T14:43:49Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-767216 This guidance memo provides a definition for a new Metrc item category and defines the use and limitations of products in this category. 2026-09-04T18:27:45Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-767033 This guidance memo provides updated instructions to licensed hemp or cannabis businesses on how to transfer product to a third-party processor for processing services, such as remediation. 2026-08-17T18:37:34Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-764082 Guidance for the applicability, use, and calculation of expiration dates and best-by dates, including for bulk products. 2026-07-09T21:41:40Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-759067 The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) must review and approve all requests to add hemp concentrates and HDCPs to a business’s Metrc inventory. If applicable, OCM must verify the requested product is compliant with Minnesota Statutes, section 342.34, subdivision 5(c) by reviewing the certificate of analysis (COA). Each batch must be approved individually. 2026-06-16T14:42:48Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-753080 Minnesota law requires that all cannabis microbusinesses, cannabis mezzobusinesses, cannabis retailers, and medical cannabis combination businesses must provide customers and patients with factual information about the effects and health risks of cannabis and hemp products. OCM has developed educational resources that businesses can utilize and share with customers and patients to meet these statutory requirements. 2026-04-10T20:34:50Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-739216 This guidance memo authorizes cannabis cultivator business license holders to purchase immature cannabis plants and seedlings from other licensed cannabis cultivator businesses, cannabis microbusinesses, cannabis mezzobusinesses, or medical cannabis combination businesses. 2025-12-31T19:51:03Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-709836 OCM is issuing guidance around required warnings that must accompany any published advertisement for a cannabis business, a hemp business or any cannabis product or lower potency-hemp edible product (including hemp beverages). 2025-11-19T22:43:52Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-713540 This guidance memo addresses limited current transportation options as businesses are still being licensed. 2025-11-17T19:52:33Z https://mn.gov/ocm/businesses/guidance-memos.jsp?id=1202-713194 This guidance memo provides direction to license holders authorized to cultivate cannabis on what constitutes an authorized source for cannabis seeds, immature cannabis plants, cannabis mother plants, cannabis plants, and other cannabis plant sources intended for propagation in the statewide monitoring system (Metrc).