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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 24,2023 Page 4 City Attorney Rachel Tierney of Kennedy&Graven Chartered made a presentation on the Minnesota Adult-Use Cannabis Law. Councilmember Etten asked if people could be using marijuana in local restaurants once it has a hemp license and could people consume edibles at a local restaurant. City Attorney Tierney indicated that is correct,people could be consuming edibles, and could be drinking a THC beverage in a restaurant. She noted the Clean Indoor Air Act does apply to marijuana. Councilmember Strahan asked how this would impact schools or would schools be regulated by the Clean Indoor Air Act. City Attorney Tierney indicated the schools are regulated by the Clean Indoor Air Act but she believed schools would be able to ban the use on their own properties, plus no on under 21 is allowed to consume. She continued on with the presentation. Mayor Roe thought it might make sense for the City to remind themselves at the end of the first quarter of next year to think about a moratorium on this because the Council would want to put that in effect to make sure there is enough time to assure all the conditions are put into effect. City Attorney Tierney explained the City would only need a moratorium if the regulations are not ready to be implemented. She noted the City should not be adopting zoning regulations before the State provides a model Ordinance. She continued with the presentation and highly recommended enacting a "time, place and manner"restriction. Mayor Roe asked if there was a sense if the City wanted any consistency between what the City might do with cannabis or hemp establishment locations in the Zoning Code and things like liquor stores from a point of view of treating people equally. He noted that right now, the City does not really have many restrictions, if any, in the Zoning Code about location of liquor stores and certainly not, on-sale establishments other than they have to be restaurants or have at least fifty percent of revenue from non-alcohol sales. City Attorney Tierney thought it made a lot of sense to treat hemp like the City treats on-sale. She thought the Council should have some conversations about whether the City wants to have distance restrictions for on-sale licenses. The City will find itself in a grey area about what to do with existing on-sales and can those establishments have hemp. She thought those would probably be pre-empted by State Law for denying if for currently licensed,but it is hard to say. Mayor Roe indicated there is also off-sale.