The state's new medical marijuana law has city councils and planning boards all over the commonwealth preparing. What do you think of Malden's approach?
The Malden City Council approved new regulations for medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday night, zoning any future facilities within the city's industrial areas and barring their operation within 300 feet of residential dwellings, schools, public parks and playgrounds. The new regulations will also require dispensaries to apply and pay for an annual license with the city. “This paper is very carefully crafted by our (city) solicitor (Kathryn Fallon), our health director Chris Webb, and (city planner) Michelle Romero,” Councillor Jim Nestor said. “It should be clear to everybody we do not want these centers in Malden....We felt if we just (banned) them outright, we'd lose a legal challenge to that. This allows us to have complete control…
The medical marijuana ballot initiative passed on Tuesday, which means up to 35 medical marijuana dispensaries can open in 2013. Would you be OK with having one in town?
Medical marijuana is coming to Massachusetts. The question is: where? The medical marijana ballot initiative that passed in Tuesdays election with 63 percent voter approval means that up to 35 medical marijuana dispensaries can open up in the state in 2013. The new law goes into effect January 1, but requires rules and regulations be set up by the Department of Public Health. Some towns and cities, such as Quincy, reportedly are already trying to line up regulations that would keep dispensaries out of their municipalities, which have proved troublesome in some of the nine states where medical marijuana dispensaries have been legal. What do you think? Is this a classic case of NIMBY (fine, but Not In My Back Yard)? Or do medical marijuana…
Voters will decide whether to grant doctors, patients and other care-givers the right to provide medical marijuana this fall. What do you think?
The states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Washington, D.C., all already allow medical marijuana to varying degrees - but is it right for Massachusetts? That's the question state voters will decide this Fall, when they consider “A Law for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana,” the first of three questions on the ballot this year. The initiative “seeks to legalize the use and cultivation of marijuana as a medical drug” and ends penalties on “qualifying patients, physicians and health care professionals, personal caregivers for patients, or medical marijuana treatment center agents for the medical…
Paul Hurteau
3:01 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
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