Right at the state-mandated deadline, St. Paul will get its first medical marijuana dispensary Friday.

LeafLine Labs will open facilities in Hibbing, Minn., and on Vandalia Street in St. Paul on Friday. Patients with a medical certification and who have registered with the state can consult with staff at the centers and receive prescriptions.

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Certification and registration for intractable pain starts July 1. Certified users can begin picking up medical cannabis for intractable pain on Aug. 1. Minnesota allows medical marijuana in pill, liquid or vapor form only.

LeafLine is one of two firms allowed to provide medical marijuana in the state.

When Minnesota’s medical cannabis law passed in 2014, it required the two companies between them to have a distribution center in each of the state’s eight congressional districts by July 1, 2016.

The other company, Minnesota Medical Solutions, reached its requirement on Monday when it opened its fourth center in Bloomington. It previously opened centers in Minneapolis, Rochester and Moorhead.

LeafLine Labs started with a center in Eagan and opened its second, in St. Cloud, earlier this month.

The St. Paul center will be located at 550 Vandalia St.