Pinetop Lakeside council updates marijuana rules, keeps 1,000-foot school buffer

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.”