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4 <br />STUDY OF MEDICAL CANNABIS MANUFACTURERS AND CANNABIS FACILITIES <br />CITY OF SAINT ANTHONY VILLAGE <br /> <br />2.1 Recent Change in the Legal Status of Medical Cannabis Under Minnesota <br />Law <br />According to the Minnesota House of Representatives Research Department report <br />Minnesota’s Medical Cannabis Therapeutic Research Act (the “MCTRA”), dated July 2015:1 <br />In May 2014, the Medical Cannabis Therapeutic Research Act was passed by the <br />Minnesota Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mark Dayton. The law <br />establishes a patient registry program, administered by the Minnesota Department <br />of Health (MDH), which allows qualifying patients to use and possess cannabis <br />for medical use. The law allows for two manufacturers to be registered in the <br />state. Each manufacturer will have one manufacturing facility and four <br />distribution sites throughout the state. The manufacturers may only distribute <br />medical cannabis in pill or liquid form, and patients may only possess medical <br />cannabis in those limited forms. <br />Qualifying medical conditions include: <br />1. Cancer <br />2. Glaucoma <br />3. HIV/AIDS <br />4. Tourette’s <br />5. ALS <br />6. Seizures <br />7. Severe and persistent muscle spasms <br />8. Crohn’s disease <br />9. Terminal illness with life expectancy of under one year <br />10. Any other condition or its treatment approved by the commissioner <br />(subject to legislative overview) <br />. . . <br />Manufacturers <br /> <br />Registration <br />On December 1, 2014, MDH registered two medical cannabis manufacturers that <br />are subject to re-registration every two years. As a condition of initial <br />registration, each manufacturer agreed to begin distribution of medical cannabis <br />to patients by July 1, 2015, and comply with other requirements under the law. <br />MDH was required to consider the following factors when determining which <br />manufacturers to register: <br />• Technical expertise in cultivation and conversion into allowable forms of <br />medical cannabis <br /> <br />1 Available at http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/MCTRA.pdf <br />12