BAKER, Minn. — To its owner, the towering structure rising from the prairie in Baker is more than an old grain elevator.

Architect Scott Dahms envisions the building as a cannabis dispensary and growing facility, giving new life to the unincorporated community around 16 miles southeast of Moorhead between Sabin and Barnesville.

If it's successful, other towns could use the idea to give their abandoned grain elevators a new future, he said.

“Nobody’s found a solution to use these things,” Dahms said. “My goal was to use this as a case study so that we could cultivate in it and bring it back to its agricultural roots.”

But to bring the plan to life, Dahms will have to get Clay County leaders on board. That could pose a problem, after the Clay County Planning Commission voted 6-2 to recom

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