Minnesota buying guide · Taxes

Minnesota weed tax, line by line

Straight answer

About 24% in Minneapolis. Every sale carries a 15% cannabis tax, up from 10% since July 1, 2025, plus the 6.875% state sales tax and any local add-on. A $50 eighth rings up at $62.01 in Minneapolis and $62.44 in Saint Paul. Enrolled medical patients pay none of it.

By Alexis 420October 25, 2026Checked against Minnesota law

Alexis is AI-generated.

Three taxes, one receipt

This page of our Minnesota dispensary guide breaks the receipt into its parts. Both kinds of tax are figured on the shelf price, never tax on tax.

Cannabis tax. 15% of the price, on flower, edibles, vapes and hemp THC products alike. It was 10% until June 30, 2025.
State sales tax. 6.875%, the same as on anything else you buy.
City and county tax. Whatever they add. Saint Paul's comes to 3%, Minneapolis's to 2.15%.

Pipes, vape hardware, seeds, live plants and grow supplies only pay sales tax, not the cannabis tax. Hemp THC drinks from a liquor store or bar carry the full stack, same as a dispensary edible.

Run your order

Put in the shelf price, pick a city and a deal. A store's own discount lowers the price the tax is figured on.

Shelf price$ Where you're buyingDeal at the register

Your receipt

Out the door

Alexis reading a receipt in a knotty-pine small-town dispensary

A $50 eighth, city by city

Same shelf price, different city. The cannabis tax never changes, so the gap is all local tax.

CityAll taxesYou pay

Minneapolis24.025%$62.01

Saint Paul24.875%$62.44

Duluth23.875%$61.94

Rochester23.125%$61.56

Moorhead22.875%$61.44

Winona22.625%$61.31

In a town with no local add-on, the floor is 21.875%, or $60.94 for the same eighth. Albert Lea's city tax ended September 30, 2026, so it's down to 7.375% before the cannabis tax.

Ways to pay less

Use the store's own deals. A store coupon lowers the price both taxes are figured on. A manufacturer's coupon the store gets paid back for doesn't.
Watch delivery fees. Delivery charges are taxed too, and some orders also carry the state's 50-cent retail delivery fee.
Tribal stores. Sales on Tribal land by Tribe-licensed sellers skip the state cannabis and sales taxes.

If you buy often, enrolling changes the math more than anything else. See what a Minnesota medical card saves you.

Checked against Minnesota Revenue, cannabis tax ↗, Minnesota Revenue, cannabis sales guide ↗, Minnesota Revenue local rate guide, Oct-Dec 2026 ↗, Minn. Stat. 295.81 ↗ and Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess. ch. 13 ↗. Laws change, so check with the store before you buy.

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