Gordon spoke during Tuesday night's planning board meeting.
The new law legalizing marijuana for medical use will generate more car crashes here and require more police training and court time, Westborough Police Chief Alan Gordon told the planning board Tuesday night. Gordon does not support trying to ban the medical use of marijuana outright, though. “I think that an outright ban is going to get challenged. And I’m not real confident it’s going to withstand the challenge to the attorney general’s office,” Gordon explained. The planning board convened Tuesday night’s meeting with town officials to discuss Westborough’s response to the new law, which takes effect Jan. 1. The board directed Town Planner Jim Robbins to draft a zoning bylaw for discussion starting at the board’s Dec. 13 meeting. The …
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Town officials discussed this Tuesday night.
The new law legalizing marijuana for medical use has Westborough officials discussing proposing zoning restricting – or possibly banning -- dispensaries and cultivation here. Tuesday night, the planning board directed Town Planner Jim Robbins to draft a zoning bylaw for discussion starting at the board’s Dec. 13 meeting. The board plans to hold a public hearing on the proposal in early 2013 and then seek town meeting approval in March . The efforts would be in case the state Department of Public Health hasn’t implemented regulations before the law takes effect Jan. 1, town officials said. Anyone wishing to open a dispensary or to cultivate marijuana for medical use would have to wait until town meeting voted and for Attorney General Martha…
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Paul Hurteau
11:12 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012
"Voters approved the new law at the Nov. 6 statewide election. Westborough residents supported the measure, Question 3 on the ballot, 5,367 to 3,347." I think the townspeople have already voted pretty clearly! more ›