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The license was revoked elsewhere. It still counts here.

Minn. Stat. § 342.16(a)(7) reaches past Minnesota's own licensing file — and it never expires.

Your officer can't work for the regulator.

Your officer can't carry an active badge.

The certifying doctor can't join payroll.

You can test before day one. Not for cannabis.

Minn. Stat. § 181.951 carves cannabis out of pre-employment drug testing — with a private right of action for getting it wrong.

One hire, two background checks.

Since March 2026 every Minnesota cannabis worker goes through the BCA. That check is not a consumer report — and the one you buy from a vendor is governed by two statutes that cannot fit on the same page.

The typo you used to get ten days to fix

ICE narrowed what counts as a correctable I-9 error in March 2026. A missing date of birth now costs money the day an inspector finds it.

The box you're not allowed to put on the application

Ban-the-box, 57,780 sealed cannabis records, and why your background check vendor might be handing you a legal problem.

If you post the job, you post the range

Minnesota's pay transparency law turns 30 employees into a compliance line — and multi-site operators cross it faster than they think.

You sell it. Can you still test for it?

Off-duty cannabis use, safety-sensitive roles, and how to write a testing policy that actually holds up in Minnesota.