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Pinetop Lakeside council updates marijuana rules, keeps 1,000-foot school buffer
Summary
The Town of Pinetop Lakeside on Tuesday adopted amendments to its medical and recreational marijuana chapters to align local code with state rules, while adding a local restriction that retail outlets must be at least 1,000 feet from schools.
The Pinetop Lakeside Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday to amend two town code chapters governing medical and recreational marijuana, aligning local distance and facility-size rules with state permitting and adding a council-approved 1,000-foot minimum distance from schools. Jeremiah, a town staff member who presented the changes, told the council that “in review of our titles for medical and recreational marijuana, I found that they're actually illegal in the way that it was enacted.”
The revisions reduce some locational limits to match state and Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) standards — for example, the town’s medical chapter is adjusted to reflect…
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