(FOX 9) - The government is getting into the marijuana market .

Government dealer

City Hall cannabis:

In total, 13 Minnesota cities are in line to launch their own cannabis retail businesses, blazing a new trail in this country, where no other state has a city-run pot shop.

A building under construction in Anoka is designed to be the state’s first cannabis retailer run by a city government and the only one in the country.

But Minnesota cities may be well positioned to do it because of what’s right next door — a municipal liquor stores.

Out of hiding

Go to the government:

Using marijuana, for decades, meant hiding from the government to consume an illegal product.

But legalization in Minnesota will now let the government become your local dealer.

"It’s an interesting concept,

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