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Minnesota Gearing Up For State’s Medical Marijuana Era

Minnesota’s marijuana makeover was kicked into high gear Tuesday with a tour of a new cannabis-growing plant.

“Nine months ago, this was all farmland. It’s pretty amazing,” said Dr. Kyle Kingsley, CEO of Minnesota Medical Solutions, as he led reporters through his sleek new plant in Otsego, about 35 miles northwest of Minneapolis.

The high-tech, ultra-security, super-secret building is one of two marijuana factories in the state. The other is in Cottage Grove, operated by LeafLine Labs.

A year after the Legislature legalized the manufacture of marijuana-based medicines, the two companies are growing and cultivating plants, fine-tuning doses and converting their product to the more medicine-like forms the state allows since the law bans smoking the plant itself. [Read more at the Twin Cities Pioneer-Press]

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