Minnesota's college students who are looking to take advantage of the state's legalization of marijuana will need to keep the drug off campus.
Minnesota State Mankato's vice president of student affairs David Jones says there are multiple ways their university deals with issues of drug use.
"Our first approach would be, again, educational if we saw that behavior with a student, was something that was just repeated over and over," says Jones. "At some point, we would be exploring probation and then ultimately suspension."
Although administrators can't control off campus behavior, Jones wants to remind students that smoking in school buildings is illegal.
"Students that choose to use marijuana as well as those who don't live in multi-housing units, I would hope that those individuals would be practicing it safe and maybe having the conversation with their own medical provider to find out the positives and negatives with the use of such a substance," Jones tells WCCO.
Despite the rules, colleges in states where weed was already legal say they've seen an increase in applications following marijuana legalization.
MORE: Get more information on legalized marijuana in Minnesota in WCCO's series here.