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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, August 8, 2022 Page 5 Mr. Trudgeon indicated that is correct. He noted one of the CityÓs interests is to make sure that access is limited to persons twenty-one or older and right now the City does not have any mechanism in place to verify that. This is another reason why the City needs to have some type of regulation on the books so the City can enforce, educate, and make sure all retailers are following the law as it was directed. Mayor Roe asked how that gets accomplished with the tobacco and alcohol licens- ing. Mr. Trudgeon indicated staff does compliance checks twice a year. Councilmember Strahan indicated for clarification, the only establishment that could not sell these products under the new State law is liquor stores so one of the few twenty-one plus entities and anyone else could sell THC products otherwise. Mr. Trudgeon indicated that was correct. Mayor Roe reviewed public hearing protocol and opened the public hearing at ap- proximately 6:42 p.m. Public Comment Mr. Cap OÓRourke Mr. OÓRourke indicated he was at the meeting representing many of the small busi- nesses throughout the State that are currently selling the products. He explained the Council should have received a document in email from Sensible Change Min- nesota. He showed a chart in the document. He explained prior to July 1, 2022 there were essentially three types of products on the market. There were products that had CBD, THC Delta Nine, and products that had THC with other isomers as well as other food and beverages on the market. CBD was fully Federally legal and fully State legal and could be purchased almost anywhere. THC Delta Nine was Federally legal if it had less than .3 percent of THC and per a court ruling, it was supposed to be State legal but there was an interpretation by a court that some prod- ucts would be a felony charge. There was also the other THC products that are fully Federally legal and there was no State law prohibiting them. Last fall, the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy said that they felt some of these products were in- toxicating and, therefore, should not be sold. There is not a specific Statute and the Board of Pharmacy never took action on any retailer selling them. The new law passed that basically treated all THC the same and it has to have less than .3 percent of any product. Edibles and food and beverage have to have less than 5 mg and less than 50 mg. All of these products have been sold in the City of Roseville for over two years. He explained this new law actually restricted what was available. There were products that had higher levels of Delta Eight and Delta Ten. Delta