The City Council unanimously passed rules allowing medical cannabis distribution centers, and research and manufacturing facilities, in certain parts of the city, though whether one of the country’s most restrictive medical marijuana programs comes to town remains to be seen.
The Minnesota Department of Health said the new locations were “still to be determined” at the end of September. Across the Arrowhead region, about 1,048 patients were approved and active when the department’s October report came out; just 14% of enrolled patients live in the northern half of the state.
After the state law went into effect this summer, Hermantown passed a moratorium on medical marijuana facilities while it worked out the regulations that were passed Monday night.
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