Burlington Town Meeting Approves Moratorium on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Town Meeting unanimously approved a 17-month moratorium on any applications for medical marijuana dispensaries in town.
Burlington Town Meeting voted unanimously last night to approve a moratorium, put forward by the Planning Board, on medical marijuana dispensaries in town. The moratorium would prohibit any application for a marijuana dispensary until June 30 of 2014. The rational for the moratorium, explained Planning Director Kirsten Kassner, was to give the town time to come up with regulations and to give the State Department of Public Health time to provide its regulations and recommendations. According to the law, which was passed as a ballot initiative during the Nov. 6, 2012 election, the Department of Public Health has 120 days to come up with regulations on the state level. The Planning Board recommended a moratorium, rather than a prohibition, …
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Sara A
1:03 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I was born and bred in Burlington. This is another unfortunate mistake taken by Town Meeting members who don't know any better and/or are uninterested in their constituents; another instance of Burlington politics where the decision was taken without an official announcement of a public hearing on this topic with either the Planning Board or in the context of Town Meeting. Disappointing. The only… more ›