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Carbondale won’t cap pot dispensaries
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Carbondale — Even with 12 current medical marijuana retail facilities and prospects for three more, the town of Carbondale still is not of the mind to put a cap on the number of such facilities it will allow.
“While a cap would benefit the facilities already in existence, it would be an artificial constraint on the market,” according to one of the findings of Carbondale’s specially appointed Medical Marijuana Facility Advisory Group.
The group, made up of citizens, business owners, medical marijuana dispensary owners, medical and mental health professionals, and a school board representative, presented its findings, along with several recommendations for a variety of local regulatory controls to the Carbondale Board of Trustees on Tuesday night.
Recent new state legislation does allow communities to place a cap on the number and size of medical marijuana facilities.
However, one of the new state laws also requires dispensaries — now referred to under the law as medical marijuana centers — to produce at least 70 percent of their own product. That, in itself, may end up limiting the number of sales operations that can exist.
“If you own a dispensary, you have to have a grow operation somewhere,” Sherry Caloia, an attorney working with the town to craft zoning and other regulations around the industry, said at Tuesday’s meeting.
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