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Sec. 18.6 10. - Purposes and Directives The Purpose of this chapter is to implement California Health and Safety Code sections 11362.5 and 11362.7 - 11362.83, known respectively as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and the Medical Marijuana Program Act (effective 2004); and to impose limitations on the location of facilities lawfully used for the cultivation, processing, storage, and dispensing of medical cannabis, other than the cultivation or possession by an individual qualified patient or caregiver at the patient or caregiver's home. The Compassionate Use Act is the State law removing State tate law penalties for qualified patients, and those patients' primary caregivers, for possession and cultivation of a personal amount of medical cannabis for qualified patients. The Medical Marijuana Program Act is the State law that allows qualified patients and caregivers to collectively or cooperatively cultivate and distribute medical cannabis for and to each other. The purpose of this Article is also to enact reasonable operating and zoning limitations and other restrictions applicable to the cultivation and distribution of medical cannabis based on the needs of the City of Santa Ana and its residents. This Article is intended: (1) To fulfill the purpose of the Compassionate Use Act to "implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana" in accord with the Medical Marijuana Program Act's purpose to provide a well-regulated program for patients and caregivers acting collectively or cooperatively to cultivate and obtain medical cannabis. (2) To help ensure that seriously ill residents of the City of Santa Ana can obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes where that medical use has been deemed appropriate and recommended or approved by a California physician who has determined the patient's health would benefit from the use of cannabis in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which cannabis provides relief. (3) To create a ministerial administrative registration process for a limited number of medical cannabis collectives and cooperatives that serve qualified patients in the City of Santa Ana in accordance with State law. Nothing in this Article purports to affirmatively authorize activities that are otherwise illegal under Federal, State, or local law. (4) To protect citizens from the adverse impacts of irresponsible or illicit medical cannabis cultivation, distribution, handling, and storage. (5) To provide additional revenue to the City of Santa Ana for the eg neral public welfare including without limit for public safety, education, and health. (6) To impose further limitations on medical cannabis collectives and cooperatives beyond those imposed under the Medical Marijuana Program Act, and in no way to affirmatively authorize activity prohibited by State or Federal law.