A grand opening celebration is set for Saturday morning at the tribal dispensary nearest to the Twin Cities.
RED WING, Minn. — Island Pezi, the state’s newest tribal adult-use cannabis company, has seen a steady stream of customers since its soft opening on Monday.
The dispensary is owned and operated by the Prairie Island Indian Community near Red Wing, less than an hour from downtown Minneapolis. It’s far closer to the Twin Cities market than Red Lake and White Earth, the two tribal nations that opened dispensaries in Northern Minnesota.
Blake Johnson, president of Prairie Island CBH Inc., said this store is the culmination of a process that started a year and a half ago, navigating through regulations, business planning, and designs. That included the decision to use the word Pezi – one of the ways of saying “grass” in the Dakota language.
“This name came about through a community effort, so the name and the logo design was all a community-based effort that brought everything together to get the community involvement,” Johnson told KARE.
“As Dakota people anything that comes from Ina Maka which is Mother Earth, is something that’s
