For Operators

Marketing, search, and email for cannabis businesses working inside Minnesota's advertising restrictions.

For Operators

You Can Call It a Contract. The State Calls It Control.

Sep 13, 2026

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9 min read

You Can Call It a Contract. The State Calls It Control.

Minnesota decides who is covered by workers' compensation using more than twenty factors about how the work actually happens, not the label on a 1099. Get a cannabis worker's status wrong, and you don't just owe a fine. You lose the one thing workers' compensation was built to hand back to you.

Minnesota Cannabis College

For Operators

Sep 12, 2026

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10 min read

Silence Isn't a Forfeit. It's a Bill.

Minnesota's unemployment system doesn't close an employer's formal right to be heard just because they answered late. It moves the fight to a more expensive stage instead — and it fines a false answer far harder than it fines a slow one.

Minnesota Cannabis College

For Operators

Sep 11, 2026

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8 min read

Zero Tolerance Isn't a Policy

Minnesota lets you keep cannabis off the shift. It doesn't let you enforce that rule until you've written it down exactly the way the statute requires.

Minnesota Cannabis College

For Operators

You Can Sell the Cannabis Business. You Can't Sell the Violation.

Sep 9, 2026

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10 min read

You Can Sell the Cannabis Business. You Can't Sell the Violation.

Minnesota's misclassification statute was written to reach past the LLC — to the owner who signed off, and to whoever buys the operation next. What Section 181.722 actually does once a cannabis business changes hands, or once its own paperwork stops matching its own floor.

Minnesota Cannabis College

For Operators

Nobody opens a dispensary to run a payroll department

Aug 31, 2026

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6 min read

Nobody opens a dispensary to run a payroll department

Guest post. Leah Kollross is the founder of Roll With Paid, a Minnesota payroll, HR, and employer-of-record company built for cannabis and other high-risk industries, and a sponsor of this newsletter.

Leah Kollross

For Operators

Aug 19, 2026

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4 min read

The List You Own: Why Cannabis Operators Should Be Sending Email

Ad platforms rent you an audience and can evict you without notice. A newsletter is the one channel where you hold the deed.

Kasey Kollross

For Operators

Search Is the Sign You're Allowed to Hang: SEO, AEO, and GEO for Cannabis Operators

Aug 15, 2026

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4 min read

Search Is the Sign You're Allowed to Hang: SEO, AEO, and GEO for Cannabis Operators

You can't buy a billboard. You can be the answer when someone asks. Here's how findability works now, in three layers.

Kasey Kollross

For Operators

You Can Call It a Contract. The State Calls It Control.

Silence Isn't a Forfeit. It's a Bill.

Zero Tolerance Isn't a Policy

You Can Sell the Cannabis Business. You Can't Sell the Violation.

Nobody opens a dispensary to run a payroll department

The List You Own: Why Cannabis Operators Should Be Sending Email

Search Is the Sign You're Allowed to Hang: SEO, AEO, and GEO for Cannabis Operators

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