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Lancaster adopts 45-day urgency moratorium on new or expanded smoke shops, citing youth safety
Summary
Lancaster City Council on a 4-0 vote adopted an urgency ordinance (11-43) imposing a temporary moratorium on certain new tobacco retail businesses and expansions of existing smoke shops, citing public-safety and youth-protection concerns.
Lancaster City Council on a 4-0 vote adopted an urgency ordinance (11-43) imposing a temporary moratorium on certain new tobacco retail businesses and expansions of existing smoke shops, citing public-safety and youth-protection concerns.
The council's action followed a staff presentation about a recent multi-agency inspection effort that reviewed roughly 30 smoke-shop locations and found violations including products packaged to resemble candy, unregulated cannabis-derivative items, kratom products, flavored nitrous-oxide canisters and, in some stores, weapons and other paraphernalia. Staff said the city licenses about 196 tobacco retailers…
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