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Marijuana Zoning Gets Huge Majority at West Tisbury Town Meeting
In a town where 80 percent of voters supported last year's state ballot initiative allowing medical marijuana, approved pot dispensaries will now be allowed to operate by special permit, Island newspapers report.
If either — or, in an unlikely scenario, both — of the two West Tisbury-based applicants is granted state permission to dispense medical marijuana, there will be a place to set up shop: Town voters Tuesday night overwhelmingly approved a change to the town's zoning bylaw that will allow permitted pot dispensaries to operate, Island newspapers report.
After discussion, the bylaw was approved 132-2, report the Vineyard Gazette and Martha's Vineyard Times.
Town voters declined to support a proposal to limit possible dispensary locations to the Martha's Vineyard Airport area, the newspapers report. As one voter is quoted in both articles as saying, to do so would be to treat the medical marijuana facility "like a strip club."
Eighty percent of West Tisbury voters supported last year's state ballot initiative allowing medical marijuana, the Times reports.
Read more:
- West Tisbury voters approve zoning changes for marijuana dispensaries (Martha's Vineyard Times)
- West Tisbury Voters Approve Medical Marijuana Bylaw (Vineyard Gazette)