Town Mulls Whether to Ban or Limit Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

The Danvers Board of Selectmen took its first steps this week in determining how it wants to set up zoning rules to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries.

When the first medical marijuana dispensary opens in Massachusetts in 2014, Danvers wants to be ready. On Tuesday, the Board of Selectmen took its first step toward deciding how it wants to regulate any proposed dispensaries. “I think we can manage it,” Selectman Gardner Trask said. “We can not stop it now; We can put as tight a leash on it as possible.” The dispensaries are coming to the state after voters last month approved Question 3, which will allow for the use of medical marijuana. Up to 35 dispensaries will be allowed in the state, starting in 2014. After more than a half hour of discussion at Town Hall, the board asked Town Manager Wayne Marquis to have town planning staff develop a definition of a dispensary that would be …

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