NEW CANAAN — If residents need hashish, they’ll must go outdoors city limits to purchase it.
The Planning and Zoning Fee moved to ban all hashish — leisure and medical — institutions this week, revising a previous moratorium that just addressed medical marijuana. The fee’s resolution, which can go into impact Dec. 17, is in step with the state legislation legalizing using hashish earlier this 12 months that gave cities the choice to ban gross sales.
The fee broached this matter earlier than when it voted in April 2019 to permanently ban medical marijuana dispensaries and manufacturing amenities. The newest textual content modification to the laws now broadens it to all hashish. The fee had scheduled a public hearing in September on the subject, however no residents participated.
Commissioner John Kriz, who made the movement for the textual content change, mentioned it’s in step with current laws and “merely an enlargement of the idea to incorporate all marijuana sales, not only for medical functions.”
He argued it reduces the potential for hashish gross sales, although the city “can not regulate the use,” in keeping with the state legislation.
To rationalize the transfer, Kriz mentioned the brand new textual content is consistent with the city’s Plan of Conservation and Improvement laws, since gross sales would “be a possible problem to public health and safety.” He raised concern that the sale of hashish on the town might spur the “potential of use within the streets,” which may result in the “risk of a contact excessive,” for passersby.
“I’ve seen this in different municipalities,” the place folks within the neighborhood of somebody smoking hashish additionally felt the consequences, Kriz mentioned to his fellow commissioners.
The regulation prohibits “location of any medical marijuana dispensary or manufacturing facility inside any of the enterprise zones.” The state legislation defines 11 several types of institutions that will be thought of marijuana companies, together with retail shops, packaging firms, supply enterprises, growers and transporters.
Although fee Chairman John Goodwin famous that the city “can at all times change our laws, so no regulation is everlasting.”
