Ban on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Incompatible With State Law
Reading Town Meeting voted to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries from coming to town, but the Attorney General does not approve.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Martha Coakley ruled that towns in this state, including Reading, cannot ban medical marijuana dispensaries, according to BostonHerald.com. Towns can, however, use zoning rules to keep dispensaries in a certain area. According to Wakefield Patch, Coakley ruled that a zoning ban on medical marijuana dispensaries approved at their Town Meeting last year conflicts with state law. "The (law's) legislative purpose could not be served if a municipality could prohibit treatment centers within its borders, for if one municipality could do so, presumably all could do so," Coakley wrote in her decision to reject the Wakefield bylaw. Jamie Terry, health agent for Northborough, said she does not believe any of the boards…
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10:28 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
look at what is happening in Colorado: ..."Spike in children using marijuana" http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/03/06/drug-testing-company-sees-spike-in-children-using-marijuana/ 74% of children in a Denver youth substance abuse treatment program report getting their pot from a "medical" marijuana cardholder an average of 50 times. (-- Journal of Child Psychiatry, June 2012, Thurstone) If this is … more ›