While State Moves Forward, Belmont Goes Slow on Medical Marijuana
Planning Board will ask Town Meeting to delay passing bylaw change to allow a dispensary in town for a year.
While the state has taken the first step on rolling out the first marijuana dispensaries across Massachusetts after the passage of a ballot question in November, Belmont is going to take a laid back approach introducing new town bylaws to allow pot shops to do business in the Town of Homes. "[The regulations] will be so new [by Town Meeting] that it is advisable we as a town should take our time," Belmont Planning Board Chairman Sami Baghdady said last month, effectively pushing the town out of the running to be home to the first round of marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts. The state's Department of Public Health introduced the first draft of the new guidelines for the distribution of medical marijuana on Friday, March 29, that goes …
frmr resident
11:42 am on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Is this what it was like when alcohol prohibition ended? How many Liquor stores and cigarette selling stores are in Belmont,,, Those are the businesses that should be run out of town,,, How many OUI's in Belmont and how many cancer patients?? more ›