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Broomfield staff to draft time‑place‑manner rules for natural‑medicine centers; council largely agrees to defer licensing to the state
Summary
City planning staff will draft local time, place and manner regulations for natural‑medicine (psilocybin and similar) facilities and advised council the city should defer licensing to the state; council members generally supported that approach and asked staff to include public outreach and disposal rules.
City planning staff told the council on Monday that Proposition 122 and subsequent state legislation permit natural‑medicine healing centers, cultivation and testing but leave local governments authority to regulate the time, place and manner of those uses.
Brandon Rowe, planning manager, described the state framework: Prop 122 decriminalized certain hallucinogenic plants and fungi and subsequent laws (Senate Bill 23‑290; 2024 cleanup amendments) created a regulatory structure. Rowe said local governments may not ban natural‑medicine uses outright but can regulate location and operational characteristics, subject to state setback…
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