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Northglenn council discusses local limits for psilocybin "healing centers"
Summary
City attorney briefed council on options to regulate natural-medicine (psilocybin) centers through zoning time/place/manner rules; council asked staff to return with specific distance, hours and disposal recommendations.
The Northglenn City Council discussed whether and how to limit local operations of natural-medicine centers that would deliver psilocybin-based services during its Jan. 27 meeting.
City Attorney Hoffman told the council that unlike licensed marijuana businesses, which the city regulates through a local licensing scheme, the city’s authority over natural medicines is narrower and would likely be limited to time, place and manner controls implemented in the zoning code. Hoffman said those options include specifying which commercial or industrial zoning districts would be eligible, imposing distance limitations from sensitive uses, setting hours of operation, and requiring screening and waste-disposal controls.
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