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See. 18.610- - Purposes and Directives <br />The purpose o this chapter is to implement California Health and Safely Code sections 11362.5 <br />and 11362.7-)1362.830 known resilQulYey as The 'gym acainnatP Use Act of 199 an the <br />Medical Mariiuana Program Act a ecf ve 2004); and to impose limitations on the location of <br />facilities lawfully used for the cultivation, processing, storage, and dispen sing of medical <br />cannabis, other hap the cultivation or possession by= individual qualifie patient or careoie vor <br />at the patient or caregiver's home. The Compassionate Use Act is the State law removing State <br />law penjilt es for qualified tin and those pati s' nn 'Mary caregivers, for possession an <br />cultivation of a pefsonal amount of medical cannabis for a life patients- The Medical <br />Marijuana Program Act is the State law that allows qualified patients and caregivers to <br />11 i y or coop r 'v ly cultivate and dist_ribute edical cannabis for an to each of er The <br />purpose of this Article i 1 to enact reasonable op re. ing and zoning limitations and other <br />restrictions applicable to the cultivation and distribution of rn-edic 1 cannabis based on the needs <br />of the-City of Santa Ana and its residents, <br />(a) This Article is intended: <br />,() To fulfill the purpose of the Compassionate Use Act t "implement _a_plan to provide-for <br />the safe. and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of <br />marijuana" in accord with the Medical Marijuana Program Act's purposetQ ' e a <br />?3e11-re-re la a g_r for patients and caregivers , c> ngcollecliv y or cooperatively to <br />cultivate and obtain medical cannabis <br />() To he lp en sure that seriou sly ill resident s of the City of Santa Ana an obtain and use <br /> canna bis f or medical pur poses where tha t medical use has been deem edan-pPr onriate a nd <br /> recom men ded or approve d by a Californ ia 12hysician w ho has deter mined th e patient's <br /> health <br />chron wo <br />ic pa uld benefit fro <br />in, • a i y, g m the use of n <br />laucoma, arthri nab's in he tre <br />tis, migraine, atment of ca <br />or any other i ncer, ano <br />llness fo rexia, AI <br />r which DS, <br /> <br />l canna <br />To cr bis p <br />eate rovides relief, <br />a ministerial ad <br />ministrative re <br />gistration proce <br />ss for a limit <br />ed numb <br />er of med <br />ical <br /> canna bis c ollectives a d cooperatives th fi <br />at serve qualifi ed patients in <br />ed the Cit y of Santa <br /> Ana <br />i n acc ordance with State law Nothi ng in this Artic le puEports t o affirma tively <br />(4) .. <br />autho <br />To pr 'ze <br />otect activities that a <br />citizens from t re otherwise ill <br />he adverse imp egal under Fed <br />acts of irrespo eral, State, o <br />nsible or illic r local <br />it medic al cannab is <br /> <br />(5) cul 'v <br />To pr ation <br />ovid , distribution, <br />e additional rev handling, and s <br />enue to the Cit torave_ <br />y of Santa Ana <br />for the gener <br />al pub i <br />s welfare, <br /> inclu ding _ i i hout limit f or public safety , education- n <br />? health. <br />d <br />65A-10