A sign announcing the expanded clientele stands outside of the Brooklyn Park RISE Dispensary, a medical marijuana dispensary that now is authorized to sell recreational products Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)
It felt like a combination of a fast-casual restaurant, a health store and a mall pop-up shop, except at this retailer, you can buy what you need to get high.
Customers packed into the Brooklyn Park location of RISE dispensaries on its first day of adult-use cannabis sales on Sept. 17, one of the first non-tribal pot shops to open about two years after the Legislature fully legalized cannabis in 2023…